The Mind Game


The Mind Game is a novel by Norman Spinrad published in 1980.

Plot summary

The Mind Game is a novel in which the wife of a television director joins a religious cult, Transformationalism.

Reception

reviewed The Mind Game in Ares Magazine #6 and commented that "it is a gripping, tense thriller to which these ideas form an intricate backdrop."
Dave Pringle reviewed The Mind Game for Imagine magazine, and stated that "This is an angry book, full of ambition, frustration, and depictions of torrid sex. It is overwritten and overlong, as all Spinrad's novels are, but it packs an unavoidable punch."

Reviews

Review by Andrew M. Andrews in Fantasy Review, August 1985