Mind-Sprung

Michael Lindsay [A. D. Harvey]

London

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Nold Johnson Books

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1981

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First Edition.

22cm x 14cm. [v], 141 pages. Black cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket.

Novel by the English historian and hoaxer A. D. Harvey under his Michael Lindsay pseudonym who in the introductory note is said to have been killed in a shoot-out with the Estonian People’s Militia during the course of an attack on an atomic power station near Lake Pskov shortly after completing this book. “Mind-Sprung is not merely the best book about drugs since Confessions of an English Opium Eater, and one of the best books ever written about settling in a foreign country, it is also on of the most startling portrayals in recent years of what is happening in contemporary Britain. The collapse of British civilization as we know it seems to have measurably closer with the publication of this book.” (from jacket flap). “Michael Lindsay’s Mind-Sprung (1981) combines elements of both Orwell’s and Ballard’s types of future-present, but also repeatedly uses sf references simply to emphasize the sheer strangeness of the present. Arguably Mind-Sprung is as important a stage in the reintegration of science fiction with “main-stream” fiction as 1984 or Crash, but to claim this is not to deny that it is a very odd, eccentric and confusing book.” (Harvey writing about his own work under another pseudonym, John Schellenberger, in the literary journal Foundation 25: The Review of Science Fiction).

Minor shelf wear. Near Fine Condition.