Mind Switch [Paperback]

Damon Knight (Author)

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• Paperback
• Publisher: BERKLEY BOOKS (1966)
• ASIN: B000SENDG6
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Quirky but provocative SF novel set in a German-dominated future, December 2, 2010

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T. D. Welsh (Basingstoke, Hampshire UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mind Switch. (Paperback)

It shouldn't make much difference, but it really does. The action of this novel, first published in 1965, takes place in the year 2170 - in Germany, which apparently dominates the world and has set up colonies on planets of distant stars. Dr Egon Klementi performs an experiment which is supposed to demonstrate time travel, but instead creates "dislocations throughout the continuum". The brandy with which the physicists propose to toast their success turns mysteriously to kerosene (or something similar). In 1970, an entire block of apartment buildings vanishes in Omaha, Nebraska. People and things from those apartments appear in Earth orbit in the year 2369. And Fritz, an intelligent biped from Brecht's Planet, lodged in the Berlin Zoo, changes places with journalist Martin Naumchik after their eyes meet for a few moments. Naumchik finds himself imprisoned in the body of the alien, and all his attempts to prove his true identity are brushed off as animal tricks or systematic fraud. Meanwhile, what of Fritz the biped, whose mind is walking around Berlin in the unfamiliar body of Naumchik?