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I just reread a couple of Bob Shaw's novels that I hadn't touched for many years and managed to get a couple of others that I wasn't familiar with, this being one of them. It starts with a not particularly competent journalist on a small-town newspaper in the USA investigating a case of spontaneous human combustion and moves via many twists and turns to a colony of psychic humans who have been marooned on Mercury for the last three and a half thousand years and also body swapping. Of course there is the obligatory villain. I kept wondering what was going to happen next and where the plot would go next and read it almost at a sitting so it certainly kept my interest. It has quite a lightness of touch but isn't trying as hard to be funny as in "Who Goes Here" and "Dimensions", Shaw's Warren Peace novels. I did feel that the ending was weak but it didn't really spoil my enjoyment of the novel.Read full review
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