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Subject: Here's another book that needs identification:
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From: Rob MacLachlan <RAM@CMU-CS-C.ARPA>


    The story is "Mindkiller" by Spider Robinson.  Part of the book
did in fact appear elsewhere as a short story.  I'm not quite sure
what to think of his trick of taking a powerful short story and making
it into a so-so novel.  It's annoying to start reading a novel, and
then discover that you already read a few chapters in the middle.

    He didn't and did succeed in rescuing his sister.  Typically, for
a Robinson story, the bad guy turned out to be a good guy after all.
In general, I like Robinson's stuff, but there is an all-pervasive air
of sickening optimism.

  Rob