The Perils of Fix-ups
Mar. 14th, 2005 08:37 pm26 Feb 2005
All My Sins Remembered - Joe Haldeman - Futura 1978
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Not much to say about this one - I read it six months ago and don't remember it well now. It is a fix-up of three novellas about an undercover agent called Otto McGavin who works for a galactic government called the Confederaçion. The twist is that for each new mission, McGavin's body is reconstructed and new skills and characteristics are implanted in his brain through hypnotic suggestion. He then infiltrates some group of nasty people by pretending to be someone known to them.
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All My Sins Remembered - Joe Haldeman - Futura 1978
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Not much to say about this one - I read it six months ago and don't remember it well now. It is a fix-up of three novellas about an undercover agent called Otto McGavin who works for a galactic government called the Confederaçion. The twist is that for each new mission, McGavin's body is reconstructed and new skills and characteristics are implanted in his brain through hypnotic suggestion. He then infiltrates some group of nasty people by pretending to be someone known to them.
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