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It also hasn't got nothing to do with the
original Frank Sinatra film or the new one that Jonathan Demme is currently directing
Denzil Washington in either.
Probably the most recently remembered that any of you have watched is a Star Trek: Next Generation episode 'The Mind's Eye' where Geordi LaForge is brainwashed to assassinate a Klingon on behave of the Romulans. A total crib. The original story is far more grim and intricate. Returning to America, ex-Sgt Raymond Shaw is manipulated - by who would spoil a twist at the end - to assassinate the President. He doesn't even know what's happening. It is through the eyes of his ex-
CO, Marco, that we see much of the plot unfold. If you're ever going to contemplate using brainwashing in any of your stories then you really need to have read this one if for no other reason than to avoid repeating this famous plot. It's quite a nail-biting page-turner as well and likely to garner
a new set of fans for this now late author's work. GF Willmetts
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OTHER REVIEWS - October 2003
More reviews: October 2003 Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson The Dark Path by Walter H. Hunt A Place So Foreign And Eight More by Cory Doctorow The Fifth Sorceress by Robert Newcomb The Gates Of Dawn by Robert Newcomb Stories Of Your Life And Others by Ted Chiang Beyond The Hanging Wall by Sarah Douglass Kingdom River by Mitchell Smith The Year's Best Science Fiction (20th Annual Collection) edited by Gardner Dozois SpyHigh Episode 1: The Frankenstein Factory by A.J. Butcher SpyHigh Episode 2: The Chaos Connection by A.J. Butcher Doctor Illuminatus by Martin Booth Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett Angel: Stranger To The Sun by Jeff Mariotte The Xenocide Mission by Ben Jeapes The Poison Master by Liz Williams The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon Shadowheart (Legends Of The Raven) by James Barclay [Spooks] Confidential: The Official Handbook by Jim Sangster
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All right, just because a book about a brainwashed
American POW assassin released after the Korean War isn't Science
Fiction, why am I reviewing the copy that is sent to me?
If
anything, it's an acknowledgement of an original novel that has
had its plot ripped...er...plagiarised...er...repeated in endless
TV SF series and probably a few SF books if you bother to look.
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