The Identity Matrix [Mass Market Paperback]

Jack L. Chalker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1986

When his mind is inexplicably transported into the bodies of other people, Victor Gonser learns that two alien races, who are fighting for control of the planet Earth, are responsible. Reissue.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Baen (January 1, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671655477
• ISBN-13: 978-0671655471
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,397,549 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars BODY SWITCHING FUN & GAMES, July 29, 2001

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Worldreels (MANKATO, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The IDENTITY MATRIX (Mass Market Paperback)

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.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best trans-gender book, February 22, 2000

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This review is from: The IDENTITY MATRIX (Mass Market Paperback)

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.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars very good book but horrible condition, October 17, 2011

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A. mickles "doctorw2" (elk grove, california) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Identity Matrix (Mass Market Paperback)

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.