Last Night at the Brain Thieves Ball

by Scott Spencer

Ebook, 2010

Status

Available

Call number

813.5

Publication

Open Road Media (2010), 153 pages

Description

Paul Galambos is an ordinary professor of psychology, struggling to glean any degree of satisfaction or success from his family and his career - until one day he is recruited by a top-secret organization and given carte blanche to pursue experiments and studies as he sees fit, no longer confined to lab rats. This is the life that Paul was destined for, replete with money and respect, if only he can ignore the incessant pull of his conscience. Alternately funny and chilling, Last Night at the Brain Thieves Ball delves into the ethical issues surrounding science and the perils of ambition, and exposes the narcissistic tendencies of humankind. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Scott Spencer, including rare photos from the author's personal collection.… (more)

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LibraryThing member tzelman
Stretched out short story about mind control--tedious and silly
LibraryThing member DinadansFriend
This novel appears to be about the amount of mental manipulation is required to turn a human being into an american business man. A psychologist takes a job at a marketing think tank, and gradually explores some of its levels of madness. It came be seen, though written as a piece of surrealism in
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1975, as a good parable for life as it is now lived in 2015. You may enjoy the read, or view it as just another dystopia.
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