Blindfold [Paperback]

Kevin J. Anderson (Author), Stephen Youll (Illustrator), Chris Moore (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1995

On the deep space colony Atlas, Truthsayers are trained with drugs to read the minds of the accused to determine guilt. But something goes terribly wrong when Daman, a government clerk, is falsely convicted of murder. With the help of the same Truthsayer who convicted him, Daman manages escape. Now, Daman uncivers a plot involving the Truthsayer drug and powerful landowners.

Product Details

• Paperback: 377 pages
• Publisher: Warner Books (November 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446602477
• ISBN-13: 978-0446602471
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,391,353 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kevin J. Anderson has written 46 national bestsellers and has over 20 million books in print worldwide in thirty languages. He has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFX Readers' Choice Award. Find out more about Kevin Anderson at www.wordfire.com.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Intricate, Centuries Spanning Plot that Delivers, April 6, 2011

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Keogh (Denver) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Blindfold (Paperback)

There are actually a wealth of ideas and conspiracies in this quick read. I like that the author used both sci-fi /fantasy ideas to form the general premise - an inhospitable world terraformed by pilgrims struggling to survive in the outer reaches of the known universe / feudal system with landholders who scrap by on dwindling resources and slave labor while being kept in line by mind reading testtube babies. Overall, Blindfold reads more like a fantasy novel with feudal infighting, intrique and conspiracies. The sci-fi elements border on the simplistic - there is a trip to space which reads about like following a russian astronaut to the ill-fated Mir Space Station. So, do not read this if you are looking for sci-fi. In fact, the meat of this novel is an exploration of the human condition. In the face of extinction, why do influencial people still resort to petty manipulations and meaningless power plays?

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Science Fiction novel...but you can't have my copy, April 9, 2001

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B. Merritt "filmreviewstew.com" (WWW.FILMREVIEWSTEW.COM, Pacific Grove, California United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blindfold (Paperback)

After speaking with Kevin Anderson in San Francisco at a German restaurant about his new book with Brian Herbert (Dune: House Atreides), I asked him, if there were any book that he'd ever written before that he would recommend(one that he was very proud of). He told me to pick up a copy of Blindfold, if I could find a copy. Luckily, I was able to thanks to Amazon.com and I read it this fall. It is, in a word, remarkable. The story is put together like a masterpeice and I loved it from beginning to end. I hope that other lovers of Science Fiction will search and find this book as well because it is well worth your reading time. Good luck finding a copy folks. You can't have mine!

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well done Science Fiction, December 22, 1999

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Byron Merritt (Monterey, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blindfold (Paperback)

After speaking with Kevin Anderson in San Francisco at a German restaurant about his new book with Brian Herbert (Dune: House Atreides), I asked him, if there were any book that he'd ever written before that he would recommend(one that he was very proud of). He told me to pick up a copy of Blindfold, if I could find a copy. Luckily, I was able to thanks to Amazon.com and I read it this fall. It is, in a word, remarkable. The story is put together like a masterpeice and I loved it from beginning to end. I hope that other lovers of Science Fiction will search and find this book as well because it is well worth your reading time. Good luck finding a copy folks. You can't have mine!