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 | | Winner, 1971 Hugo Award for Best SF Novel 1971 William Hjortsberg: "Gray Matters" (New TYork: Simon & Schuster) Human brains can be implanted in new bodies, promising both immortality and total mind-control, except for those neurotics whose personalities survive brain washing. |
 | | The Einsteinian inventor of a puzzling faster-than-light communicator (the "ansible", an anagram of "lesbian"), Shevek is caught between two cultures, one a dictatorial urban consumer pseudo-paradise (America squared), and one a Taoist libertarian pseudo-impovershed planet of exile (Australia through the looking-glass). |
 | | Not as goofy as this sounds, this novel plumbs the depths of confusion and despair, and also had me rolling on the floor with laughter, as he reworks what must have been verbatim conversations between stoned houseguests in his own livingroom. |
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