Title: The Mind Game

Title: The Mind Game Title Record # 14702
Author: Norman Spinrad
Date: 1980-08-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English

Synopsis: Amazon: Down on his luck Hollywood director's down on her luck actress wife gets taken over by a mind game cult like Est or Scientology called Transformationalism. She disappears into the bowels of Transformationalism, he's determined to "rescue" her to the point where pretends to be taken over too. Is he or isn't he? As he delves deeper and deeper (or higher and higher depending on what who believes), he's no longer sure either. A novel about the power of cults, show biz and cults, and just maybe the nature of "reality" assuming there is one.

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Year	Title
1983	The Process

Year	Language	Title
1981^ⓘTranslated by Charles Canet	French	Les miroirs de l'esprit
1996^ⓘTranslated by Corina Popescu	Romanian	Jocul minții^?Jocul mintii Jocul mintsii

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Mind Game	1980-08-00	Norman Spinrad	Jove Books	0-515-04847-X	$2.50^?$: US dollar	342	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
The Mind Game	1985-08-00	Norman Spinrad	Bantam Spectra	0-553-25061-2	$3.50^?$: US dollar	342+ [18]	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Catherine Huerta
The Mind Game	2013-06-17	Norman Spinrad	ReAnimus Press	978-1-4904-0935-1	$14.99^?$: US dollar	350	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel

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Reviews

Review by Greg Costikyan (1981) in Ares, #6 January 1981
Review by Allen Varney (1981) in Science Fiction Review, Spring 1981
Review [French] by Dominique Martel (1981) in Fiction, #324
Review by David Pringle (1983) in Imagine, August 1983
Review by Andrew Andrews [as by Andrew M. Andrews] (1985) in Fantasy Review, August 1985
Review [French] by Eric Sanvoisin (1986) in Fiction, #376
Review [French] by Henri Manguy (1986) in Fiction, #379