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Interstellar travel to alien worlds is too expensive for Marvin, a college student in need of a good vacation. So he signs up for what he can afford: a mind swap, in which his consciousness is swapped into the body of an alien life-form. Unfortunately, Marvin finds himself in the body of an interstellar criminal—a body that he has to vacate, fast. But that criminal consciousness has stolen Marvin's earthly body. Now Marvin has to find a body on the black market just to stay alive! Travel with Marvin from world to world, each one crazier than the last, as he keeps finding far-from-ideal bodies in awful situations.
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"Sheckley has long been considered one of the genre's leading humorists."
New York Times Book Review
"Mr. Sheckley-as might be expected of a writer who can wring praise from as diverse a group of peers as Kingsley Amis, Harlan Ellison, John le Carré and J. G. Ballard-has an engagingly madcap manner all his own."
Wall Street Journal
"There's nothing so joyous in science fiction as a Golden Age chestnut, and Mindswap delivers with gusto. Narrator Tom Weiner shares that gusto as he portrays alien dialects, futuristic slang, and interplanetary adventure. Weiner evokes the B-movie aesthetic so strongly that one expects to hear cheesy beeps, radar pings, and theremin music. Satire is the name of the game, and satire is always best
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