The Mind Cage

The Mind Cage is a 1957 science fiction novel by Canadian-American writer A. E. Van Vogt, adapted from the short story "The Great Judge" (1948).

Cover of the first edition, published by Simon & Schuster. Art by H. Marcelin.

Plot summary

David Marin risks his career to defend Wade Trask, a scientist being tried for sedition, but when Trask switches their brains, Marin finds himself branded an enemy of the state.

Reception

Floyd C. Gale wrote that "Van Vogt, master of the tortuous plot, goes through torture to prove it ... [he] still is highly imaginative and his patented jig-saw puzzles are good fun, even though pieces persistently remain missing".[1]

gollark: And something something mmap will essentially just be an unrolled linked list but indirected.
gollark: Anyway, I suppose "I have vast amounts of data which sometimes need appending to" is a valid usecase.
gollark: Maybe you should just know the size.
gollark: As you know in advance the size, there is no reallocation ever.
gollark: Presumably, each layer or whatever gets its own big matrix which is stored together.

References
  1. Gale, Floyd C. (September 1958). "Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf". Galaxy Science Fiction. p. 101.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.