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The IDENTITY MATRIX

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If some alien should need your body in which to transport its jellyfish self, don't fight it. Chalker describes these body snatching aliens and also invents another black-budget FBI type organization, the IMC, to combat the aliens. Hoorah! The IMC develops computized techniques for placing one's identity on a matrix-cube for future use. Furthermore, the matrix-cube might be modified to control how a person thinks.

If you can follow and remember the body switching that goes on in this story you are a Chalker fan. The author was obviously just having fun when he switched the identity matrix of his adult lesbian character into the body of a 13 year old Indian gal. Is that child abuse? Obviously carried away by this body-identity switching, Chalker downloads the matrix of a middle age geek professor first into the the body of a young, chic blonde, and then finally replaces the professor's matrix with that of a computer constructed nymphomaniac prostitute/stripper. If only real characters were so easy to construct. I think the story will be easier to follow (swallow) if you read the 8 page report at the end titled Operation Triple Play.

But the process or identity matrix construction, downloading and switching ID's was original to this reader. In answer to the ancient perplexing question of: where is the soul? Chalker gives an easy answer--in the ID matrix-cube.

Gender bending, body switching, and other nifty things... This book's writting is not the best, but the plot is excellent. I read it the first time in 6th grade, and I identified with it completely. A must read for every boy tho never fit in and always dreamed of being a girl.

I love jack l chalkers novels and this novel i loved a lot the story was like watching a movie thats how good chalker writes but, finding an unused jack l chalker book on amazon is like mission impossible the book i recieved in the mail was in bad condition i mean i have used books from ten years ago which are still in mint condition so there is no excuse for selling a used book in poor conditon. i hope amazon.com gets some new jack l chalker novels which are unused afterall jack l chalker would be hurt to know his fantastic sci books are being sold to people as hand me downs.

THIS IS VERY GOOD BOOK. BUT, IT VERY OLD WHEN IT COME OUT 1995. I HAVE BOUGHT IT, BUT, I LOST IT WHEN I MOVED. SO, I BOUGHT ANOTHER ONE. IF YOU LIKE ABOUT SWITCH GENDER, SYFY, UFO, YOU WOULD LIKE THIS ONE. I READ IT ABOUT 5 TIMES.IT FUN AND YOU NEVER GEST THE STORY AND HOW IT END.

This chaotic mess of a story will keep me away from his other works. Why?

The main character is not engaging at all. At no point do I actually care about him/her. At no point can I sympathize, or even emphasize. There is no connection to any of the main characters, as they have the real depth of manniquins.

The plot draaaaaaaaags.

There is even an epilogue in which it felt like the author was trying to explain to the reader why the story was secretly interesting, even though you didn't know it while you are reading it.

No more, please.

I think this is a good book but not for younger readers. It has some inapproprate parts to it. Otherwise it is a great book.

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