Mindkiller: A Novel of the Near Future

Inventive, well paced, and relevant. If you are a Spider fan coming from his Callahan novels, you may not like this much. If you are looking for the best book Spider has ever produced, then this is the one.

This book is excellent, a science fiction mystery with multiple plot twists and fascinating ideas, and a positive, uplifting, the world will be a better place in the future ending. I loved the characters, and thought the characterization of the memory loss and the abused woman were amazingly accurate, close enough to my own emotions to make me have to set the book down for a bit and catch my breath. The book surprised me several... Read Full Review

Reaching the ultimate 'high' has been the goal of a considerable portion of the human race for a very long time. The methods used to try to reach that point have ranged from an incredible variety of mind-altering drugs to deep meditation to self-induced hypnotic trances. So when a new way of reaching that high comes along, direct electrical stimulation of the mind's pleasure center via a surgical implant and a small external... Read Full Review

the author is this generations Hienlen . this is one of his best works. a great plot with many twists. i didn't want the book to end.

An excellent "didactic" book, this book presents the lives of two men in a world of the not too distant future that are getting a little too close for comfort to the secretive group that learned how the human mind works, and how memory can be erased. A very dangerous secret even to know about, for all involved.The search for the "powers in control" quickly turns dangerous.The story presents a world that is neither to utopic... Read Full Review