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A Splendid Chaos: An Interplanetary Fantasy

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This is the only book I've ever read three times. I go back to it every couple of years for a dose of something truly alien. The more books I read, the more I realize "A Splendid Chaos" is unique. If you are sick of aliens that are only alien in form, read this book. If you think the greatest accomplishment of an SF writer is to make you rub your temples in pain as you try tro wrap your brain around his concepts, read this book. If you like to read books that are spinoffs of TV shows, RUN AWAY.

The book is about our hero being abducted from earth and being shipped to a strange planet where other abductees have been dumped. The location is a pretty freaky place where fields of morphogenic particles alter the nature of consciousness and personality itself to 'twist' people into monstrous versions of themselves. The 'twists' try to wage war on the normals and the mystery of the planet and its purpose is finally solved when we learn that the whole scenario has been engineered by a super advanced race who watch the events as a giant 4 dimensional soap opera.

(The leader of the twists is a megalomaniacal psychology professor bent on domination :-))

The book is mu(l)ticoloured joy to the imagination and the central ideas are hilarious and deeply illuminating for the whacky light they cast on the nature of human life, our minds and our role in the cosmic scheme