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Author
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Ralph
Blum |
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Title
Index
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The
Simultaneous Man |
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| Year |
1970 |
| Publisher |
Panther
(Andre Deutsch) |
| ISBN |
586037616 |
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Synopsis
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In a
top secret
American
government
laboratory the
ultimate
refinement in
brainwashing is
taking
place. The
memory of Prison
Volunteer 233 is
taking
systematically
destroyed by a
neurosurgeon - to
be replaced by
that of another
man, Dr Andrew
Horne, Director of
Project
Beta. Mind
alteration has
been superseded by
the far more
terrifying science
of mind
substitution ...
Two men with a
single mind haunt
the pages of this
uncanny,
terrifying and
totally compelling
story as it moves
from America to a
counterpart
laboratory in
Leningrad and an
explosive climax
of chilling
inevitability. |
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Review
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'A
fine and deeply
disturbing work'
Noam Chomsky
'The
Simultaneous Man
does more than
please us by its
ingenuity; it
moves us by the
passionate,
permanent outcry
of the human heart
under stresses
unsuspected by
every age before
ours ... What
makes such
fictional horrors
convincing is of
course the present
terror of a
technology in
which brain
'erasing' and
'remaking' does go
on ... Ralph
Blum's images of
beauty and terror
appeal to our
anxiety about the
hazards to the
mind in an age of
war, of drugs, of
unremitting
propaganda'
Alfred Kazan,
Saturday Review |
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Credit:
NASA
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STS-97
Shuttle
Mission
Imagery
Astronaut
Carlos I.
Noriega,
mission
specialist,
waves
toward his
space walk
partner,
astronaut
Joseph R.
Tanner, as
Tanner
snaps a
35mm frame
during the
second of
three
STS-97
sessions
of
extravehicular
activity
(EVA).
Part of
the
newly-deployed
solar
array
structure
is at the
top of the
frame.
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NASA
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