Mind Changer

{{Short description|1998 novel by James White}}

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Mind Changer is a 1998 science fiction book by Northern Irish author James White, part of his Sector General series.{{cite web | url=http://www.sectorgeneral.com/biobiblio.html | accessdate=17 December 2008 | title=A Bio-bibliography of James White | author=Andrews, G. | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207013020/http://www.sectorgeneral.com/biobiblio.html | archive-date=7 February 2012 | url-status=dead }}{{Cite book

| author=Brian M. Stableford | contribution=James White | pages=385–386

| title=Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Literature

| publisher=Scarecrow Press| date=2004 | isbn=0-8108-4938-0

| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nzmIPZg5xicC&dq=%22james+white%22+biography+science+fiction&pg=PA386

| accessdate=18 December 2008

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Publishers Weekly described Mind Changer as "White's finest performance, replete with wit, originality, medical expertise and sheer decency" and commented that the series shows no signs of aging,{{Cite news | newspaper=Publishers Weekly | title=Review | isbn=0812541960 | last1=White | first1=James | date=15 September 1999 }} Summarized at {{cite web | url=http://boukephalos.com/Singularity/Dec_1999.htm | accessdate=18 December 2008 | title=Singularity: An Online Review of Books: December 1999 / January 2000 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708085524/http://boukephalos.com/Singularity/Dec_1999.htm | archivedate=8 July 2011 | df=dmy-all }} and Booklist described the book as an "enjoyable, witty resumé" of Chief Psychologist O'Mara's career.{{Cite news | newspaper=Booklist | title=Review | isbn=0812541960 | last1=White | first1=James | date=15 September 1999 }} Summarized at {{cite web | url=http://boukephalos.com/Singularity/Dec_1999.htm | accessdate=18 December 2008 | title=Singularity: An Online Review of Books: December 1999 / January 2000 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708085524/http://boukephalos.com/Singularity/Dec_1999.htm | archivedate=8 July 2011 | df=dmy-all }}

Todd Richmond wrote that the Sector General series declined after Star Healer (1985), hitting a low point with The Galactic Gourmet (1996), and that the later books tended to stretch a short story's worth of content to the length of a novel. However he thought that Mind Changer (1998) represented an improvement.{{cite web

| title=Mind Changer (review) | author=Todd Richmond

| url=http://www.sfsite.com/11b/mind45.htm | accessdate=18 December 2008

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