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In *The Mind Cage*, David Marin places his career and reputation at risk after pleading for Wade Trask, a brilliant scientist condemned to death for sedition. Trask is conducting a controversial experiment in which the consciousness and nervous system of one animal are transplanted into another body. As time runs out, Marin’s own identity is involuntarily transferred into Trask’s body, forcing both men to confront a government that may consider them enemies.
First publish date: 1957
Genre: Science Fiction/Hard Science Fiction
Authors: A. E. van Vogt
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