2006-09-01 10:46:58 · 29 answers · asked by Brainless Monkey 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Marge Piercy did one called Body of Glass
2006-09-01 10:48:19 · answer #1 · answered by mise 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends what you mean, if you want a book where the Brain or Mind is a plot device, the as Eye R says, Johnny MNeumonic. But if you're looking for something that just plays with the brain, then you have to look at Philip K Dick who was always questioning perception and reality.
2006-09-01 22:50:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok a great author is Anne McCaffrey and she wrote a series on the B&B ships. The best of them is the ship who sang. B&B refers to brain and brawn ships. A brain ship is a person born so deformed that in our society the birth would have been aborted but these deformed people have fully functioning brains. They are trained to eventually run a spaceship that is considered to be as luxurious as our Concord aeroplane. They are encased in nutrient fluids to sustain them almost indefinitely and then encased in Titanium for virtual indestructability. They are hooked up to every aspect of the ship and are supplied with a brawn, fully functioning pilot who is as much a companion for the person in the ship as co-captain. The ship has to work for the government until they discharge all costs from their training to the ship itself and then if they manage this(some ships never do) they can accept or deny any job they wish. Some brains run space terminals, some run space facilities. they all have their own personalities and great stories. Helva is the most interesting, she is the ship who sang. I haven't blown any plots for you either, this is just a short rundown on what they are. It is so totally worth a look.
2006-09-01 18:25:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try anythig by effinger like novels When Gravity Fails (1987), A Fire in the Sun (1989), and The Exile Kiss (1991).
They all deal with brain enhancement
2006-09-01 10:52:07 · answer #4 · answered by pogonoforo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess is a classic work of science fiction which also asks some interesting questions relating to the mind.
2006-09-07 00:33:35 · answer #5 · answered by Damian K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Broca's Brian
The Terminal Man
The Report on the Barnhouse Effect
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2006-09-08 04:41:11 · answer #6 · answered by Brian M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have two really good reads for you the first is called Set This House In Order by Matt Ruff and it's about a guy with split personalities and I loved it! The second was one of my favorites of all time calle The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
This one is about a guy who thinks some sort of siezure problem makes him soom through time throuought his live span where he meets his future wife at six when he is 30 something. I highly recomend both. Oh, and onother one is called staying dead. its a retrievers novel by Laura Anne Gillman
2006-09-01 10:55:57 · answer #7 · answered by magraloo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if it's about the mind or brain but the Gap Series of novels by stephen donaldson is excellent and it's mainly about space.
2006-09-01 10:55:53 · answer #8 · answered by TheDude 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Frankenstein. The monster's brain is of course, reactivated.
The SF film, The Matrix, deals with the nature of reality by asking whether our minds actually imagine a false reality just by sending the right electrical impulses to our brains.
2006-09-01 10:50:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mona Lisa Overdrive is another great book by William Gibson. The charecters "plug in" to a virtual world.
2006-09-01 10:54:33 · answer #10 · answered by Ralph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋