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Title: The Mind Digger
Series Title: Produced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy April 1958.
Credits:
Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Summary: "The Mind Digger" by Winston K. Marks is a science fiction novel written in the late 1950s. The story delves into the fascinating yet unsettling realm of memory and its implications for creativity and personal experience. It explores the journey of a young playwright, Hillary Hardy, who seeks to achieve total recall of his memories through experimental therapy, ultimately leading to profound and harrowing consequences. The narrative follows the rise of Hillary Hardy, a gifted but unconventional young playwright who sells his first play, "Updraft," to the producer George Crocker. As his fame grows and he becomes a prolific writer, Hardy engrosses himself in memory enhancement experiments, aiming to achieve total recall back to his conception. While these endeavors initially prove to be a source of artistic inspiration, they also lead him to relive all his past traumas and pains with intense emotional clarity. As a result, the creative outlet he once thrived upon transforms into a torturous experience, ultimately leaving him in a state of mental collapse. The climax of the story illustrates the dangers of blurring the lines between memory and reality, as well as the psychological toll of seeking to harness the mind's full potential. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 75.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Author: Marks, Winston K. (Winston Kinney), 1915-1979
EBook No.: 32353
Published: May 12, 2010
Downloads: 139
Language: English
Subject: Science fiction
Subject: Short stories
Subject: Psychological fiction
Subject: Dramatists -- Fiction
Subject: Memory -- Fiction
LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
Title: The Mind Digger
Series Title: Produced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy April 1958.
Credits:
Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Summary: "The Mind Digger" by Winston K. Marks is a science fiction novel written in the late 1950s. The story delves into the fascinating yet unsettling realm of memory and its implications for creativity and personal experience. It explores the journey of a young playwright, Hillary Hardy, who seeks to achieve total recall of his memories through experimental therapy, ultimately leading to profound and harrowing consequences. The narrative follows the rise of Hillary Hardy, a gifted but unconventional young playwright who sells his first play, "Updraft," to the producer George Crocker. As his fame grows and he becomes a prolific writer, Hardy engrosses himself in memory enhancement experiments, aiming to achieve total recall back to his conception. While these endeavors initially prove to be a source of artistic inspiration, they also lead him to relive all his past traumas and pains with intense emotional clarity. As a result, the creative outlet he once thrived upon transforms into a torturous experience, ultimately leaving him in a state of mental collapse. The climax of the story illustrates the dangers of blurring the lines between memory and reality, as well as the psychological toll of seeking to harness the mind's full potential. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 75.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Author: Marks, Winston K. (Winston Kinney), 1915-1979
EBook No.: 32353
Published: May 12, 2010
Downloads: 139
Language: English
Subject: Science fiction
Subject: Short stories
Subject: Psychological fiction
Subject: Dramatists -- Fiction
Subject: Memory -- Fiction
LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.