Mind Games

by Richard Thieme, Duncan Long (Illustrator)

Overview

Mind Games is a unique collection of 19 stories of brave new worlds and alternate realities — stories of computer hackers, deception and intelligence, spirituality, mysteries of consciousness, and the paranormal. "The only way you can tell the truth," a friend at the National Security Agency told Richard Thieme, "is through fiction." Mind Games is the result.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011814303
Publisher:	Duncan Long Publications
Publication date:	04/01/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	345
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Richard Thieme has published hundreds of articles, dozens of short stories, two books with more coming, and given several thousand speeches. He speaks professionally about the challenges posed by new technologies and the future, how to redesign ourselves to meet these challenges, and creativity in response to radical change. Many recent speeches have addressed security and intelligence issues for professionals around the world. He has keynoted conferences in Sydney and Brisbane, Wellington and Auckland, Dublin and Berlin, Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Israel and the USA. Clients range from GE and Microsoft to the FBI, US Dept of the Treasury. and the US Secret Service. His pre-blog column, "Islands in the Clickstream," was distributed to thousands of subscribers in sixty countries before collection as a book by Syngress, a division of Elsevier. His work has been taught at universities in Europe, Australia, Canada, and the United States. He lives with his wife, Shirley, in Fox Point, Wisconsin and can be reached at www.thiemeworks.com

Editorial Reviews

This book is exactly how I hoped it might be: not so much Richard Thieme essays (much as I enjoy those!) in fictional format, but simply excellent stories that happen to concern reality-manipulation, the elusiveness and relativity of truth, etc., each told in a variety of voices that quite convincingly and entertainingly appear to belong, at key moments, to other people.

Michael Bauer

This extraordinary book of short stories draws the reader into multiple levels of reality and multiple dimensions. The settings are mostly futuristic, as in engineered societies. But the principles of social engineering are laid bare, inducing the reader to reflect on current values, desires, and markers of progress. Liking and disliking is maybe not the right attitudinal axis for this book. Better: Are we game for these uncomfortable mental adventures in consciousness and the nature of reality?

Jean Maria Arrigo

... as with writers such as Philip K. Dick, the stories Thieme presents are delivery vehicles for ideas that will burrow into your mind and if one is fortunate, set your thoughts on their own "connect the dots" mission to destinations unknown. This will be a life-changing book for some of those who read it. Not in the sense of the self-help tomes by gurus who assure you that your investment will bring answers. If anything, Thieme assures you just the opposite.

Ken Warthog