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Book Review The Great Brain Robbery

Modern Promotions, 160 pages,

$0.75 ‘

Reviewed by Albert Prunesquallor Science fiction has long been

plagued by bad books with sim-

plistic plots and earfhoard Chara'.‘

presumptuous turn of events, the lkonians are revealed to be the bad guys. The 'Ikonians want a certain mental power stored in selected earthlings (ban the term!)

~ and think of no more of killing us

to salvage a botched plot.

The author reveals his ignor- ance in many areas. For instance, he labels a person suffering from an inferiority complex as paranoid yet the main character is sup-

' osedl a 5 ch. ma'or. Besides Iers. This book from the bad old humans that we would thmk 0f p y p y 1

days of sci-ti, published in 1970,

throwing away batteries. By sheer

his slaughtering of the laws of

- - ' h sics and common sense, he fansimo therealm qfflimsy story“ corncrdence, all the power Just P 3'

lines. The protagonist, Dennis Sands, is a junior at Berkeley suffering

One day, the head of the Psych. department of a nearby university

an experiment on the psych. class :hat Dennis is taking. The visitor to 5 out to be an alien impostor

visits 8 "keley in order to perform

happens to be stored in the minds of Dennis and Cindy.

reveals his great talent at being a boring, medicore-writer. It is no

The bad aliens try to {OI-mfg wonder that he has never been from delusions of intelligénce the power out of Dennis, but he is heard from again since publishing

rescued deus ex machina by the good aliens, the Olarusanians. Here, the author utterly fails to revive the dying plot by flimsy explanation and terse oratory. With the aid of his new friends,

searching for humans to help save Dennis returns to Ikonia to rescue his planet. As dictated by the the damsel in distress. He is cap- needs of the wisp of a p'ot, Dennis tured, but escapes, much to my agrees to go. dismay. So, he attempts another

Dennis is whisked away to a rescue like any hero would, this Vast underground complex in time with the presence of two alien Antarctica, where the alienshave friends. He finds Cindy, but they assembled nearby two dozen are captured. The good aliens are People capable to teleporting to executed, but Dennis and Cindy their world, Ikonia. Here Dennis escape. They then. help the good meets the damsel in distress, aliens, destory the bad aliens, and Cindy Peters. Then, through a go home as the author feeny tries

this atrocity. In fact, the book stoops,so low as to include a two page color cigarette ad in the middle! '

In retrospect, I am at a loss as to why this book became a best- seller last year here in Canada. The Great Brain Robbery is merely an example of simply awful literature by a petty author, yet many Canadian students and professors wasted an incalculable amount of time vehemently de- nouncing the book. It is incom- prehensible why so many people in Canada made a multitude of polemics over a book totally un- worthy of discussion, let alone consideration.

,November 21, 1985

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