Man of Many Minds

The first moves have been made. A deadly pattern is emerging. Someone—or something—is on the verge of attaining supreme power over the galaxy. The Inter-stellar Corps stands helpless as a secretive force conspires to grip all the planets held by man. Unable to discover the plot, they need a better weapon.

Enter a man unlike any other. The Corps’ most mysterious operative, he wields a strange and formidable weapon—his mind. With danger closing in from all sides, he must navigate treacherous planets, unravel deadly conspiracies, and confront an enemy unlike anything humanity has ever faced.

Brace yourself for an extraordinary science fiction adventure—one that will challenge everything you think you know about the power of the mind.

Definitely a Western “in space.”

The story originally appeared in serial form in a boy’s interest magazine from another generation… and you could probably tell even if you didn’t know that going into it.

The good guys are all good. The bad guys are all bad. The story has the plot beats of a comic book with Boy Scouts as the intended target audience. The mind reading stuff is clever in places but basically just a plot device. That is, it’s never explored in the way one might expect in more speculative science fiction.

I found the story and AI narration to be fine for what they were.