Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Mindswap
    Unavailable
    Mindswap
    Unavailable
    Mindswap
    Ebook201 pages3 hours

    Mindswap

    By Robert Sheckley

    3.5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    A classic science fiction novel from beloved author Robert Sheckley returns to print in Mindswap.

    In the future, interstellar travel to alien worlds will be too expensive for most ordinary people. It certainly is for Marvin, a college student who wants to take a really good vacation. And so he signs up for what he can afford, a mindswap, in which your consciousness is swapped into the body of an alien lifeform. But Marvin is unlucky, and 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, and Marvin has to find a body on the black market.

    Travel from world to world with Marvin, each one crazier than the last, as he keeps finding far from ideal bodies in awful situations, just to stay alive.

    At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMay 30, 2006
    ISBN9781466827349
    Unavailable
    Mindswap
    Author

    Robert Sheckley

    Robert Sheckley was one of the funniest writers in the history of science fiction. He did screwball comedy, broad satire, and farce. He could also be deadly serious, but he was always entertaining and always had something pointed to say about our world using the skewed versions of reality he created in his fiction. Starting in the early 1950s, he was an amazingly prolific short story writer, with a lot of his stories appearing in Galaxy Magazine. He launched his novel-writing career with Immortality, Inc., which he followed up with a sequence of excellent books: The Status Civilization, Journey Beyond Tomorrow, and Mindswap. He continued to produce novels and short stories in abundance until his death in 2005.

    Read more from Robert Sheckley

    Related to Mindswap

    Related ebooks

    Science Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      'After On' Sees The End Of The World In A Dating App

      Aug 5, 2017

      Silicon valley entrepreneur and novelist Rob Reid takes on artificial intelligence — and how it might end the world — in his weird, funny new techno-philosophical thriller After On.

      3 min read

    • Article

      Up Close: Rigan Machado

      Nov 23, 2022

      Up Close: Rigan Machado
      4 min read

    • Article

      Objects of Fear and Worship: The Evolution of Aliens in Literature

      Oct 20, 2017

      The sorns are slender and humanoid and are the scientists and thinkers; the hrossa resemble overstretched otters; they are poets and musicians; and the pfifltriggi are the builders, looking like insectile frogs. The post Objects of Fear and Worship:

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Power Of Three

      Sep 14, 2023

      The Power Of Three
      14 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Nov 14, 2022

      Limberlost begins with a whale, not a marlin: an almost-mythical beast at the mouth of a Tasmanian river, troubling the waves with its fluked tail. But Robbie Arnott’s third novel carries echoes of Ernest Hemingway’s masterpiece. As its hero pits him

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Books Briefing: The Best Books to Get Lost in This Summer

      Jul 9, 2021

      Memoirs and novels that satisfy the urge for high drama: Your weekly guide to the best in books

      3 min read

    • Article

      This Family Saga Finds Grace And Beauty In Ordinary Lives, Fully Lived

      Jun 10, 2021

      Simon Van Booy's new novel Night Came With Many Stars follows several generations of a Kentucky family, their crossroads and choices, their curses and hard memories, their luck and their chances.

      3 min read

    • Article

      What We Loved This Week

      May 25, 2018

      What We Loved This Week
      5 min read

    • Article

      Dublin Area Rowdy Teens

      Mar 10, 2023

      Of course, later on he would tell the police and anyone who would listen that what had happened was symptomatic of a larger problem—disaffected youth, fear of stabbings, the bystander effect, the growth of unmanned train stations, the loss of conduct

      7 min read

    • Article

      'Empire Of Wild' Tells A Small Story — But Not A Slight One

      Jul 29, 2020

      Cherie Dimaline's new novel seems small in scope — it's about a woman who loses her husband and is determined to bring him back, nothing more than that — but it's rich, tightly written and powerful.

      4 min read

    • Article

      Cycles

      Nov 10, 2022

      His online profile was promising: good hair, straight teeth, college degree. And he was nice-looking too, in his photo anyway, standing on a clifftop with the sun rising over his welldefined, muscular shoulder. He was attractive enough, the kind of u

      18 min read

    • Article

      Nine Haunting Postapocalyptic Novels

      Feb 3, 2022

      The paradox of imagined apocalypses is that they’re always more about the present than the future. Here's a list of a few haunting and evocative titles. The post Nine Haunting Postapocalyptic Novels appeared first on The Millions.

      4 min read

    • Article

      The 15 Best Books of 2020

      Dec 24, 2020

      The 15 Best Books of 2020
      10 min read

    • Article

      What We’re Reading This Summer

      Jun 28, 2019

      Atlantic staffers pick 14 books to spend time with this season, including Freshwater, Republic of Spin, Killing and Dying, and more.

      10 min read

    • Article

      MY DINNER with JUPITER

      Aug 29, 2023

      MY DINNER with JUPITER
      7 min read

    • Article

      Reading In The Bardo

      Oct 7, 2020

      Reading In The Bardo
      9 min read

    • Article

      Four Of A Kind

      May 3, 2023

      Four Of A Kind
      4 min read

    Reviews for Mindswap

    3.5/5

    90 ratings8 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      I admit that i am very fond of this book, where a talented artist drops us into a group of disparate characters and dances with them, and our minds for a dizzying whirl. He lets us go far too soon, and we are left to discover what this exercise in rapid characterizations has done to us. Well done sir! Read it if you want to be shaken around a bit by a writer at the height of his powers. It was very sixties, and should have been. It is whar science FICTION should be. Fans of the Jack Williamson, very hard sci-fi need not apply!
    • 5/5
      Laugh out loud funny by one of our funniest writers. A contemporary masterpiece of satire.
    • 3/5
      Funny is some spots and boring in others but in overall a book worth reading for enjoyment for the thought the author presented.
    • 5/5
      timeless. Nearly 50yrs since it was written and it is a masterpiece.
    • 5/5
      A hilarious example of anti-intellectualism in science fiction. Mindswap is a satire on Voltaire's Candide, where the hero ends up in increasingly improbable situations. Like Candide, it parodies many other works and the writing might seem clunky if you're not familiar with Golden Age and 1950s science fiction.
    • 1/5
      pretty over-the-top. I can't finish it because it was just too much. If it was toned down some, I think I would have liked it more.
    • 4/5
      A bit of a hoot of a science fiction novel in which Marvin Flynn, who cannot afford an interplanetary vacation by any other means, answers an ad to Mindswap (sort of like vacation time shares, except you swap bodies instead of houses) with a Martian. After the swap is complete he finds, to his dismay, that the other party has unscrupulously contracted his body to another vacationer, who is found to have prior claim, and absconded with Marvin's body for parts unknown. Marvin has six hours to find his own body, or be dispossessed of a physical body, which of course would mean death. What follows is a sardonic tour de farce as Marvin transfers from one alien body to another in a quest for his own. I think Douglas Adams must have been inspired by Sheckley's style for his "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" books, although Adams did it better.
    • 5/5
      Pure fun from start to end and with a happy grinning contented ending.