Böcker av Clement Masloff

Expelled from an Athens psychiatric hospital for his radically new methods, Athos Gavrion returns to Salonika, his native city, to open a clinic that uses self-hypnosis, electronic mirrors, and blue laser light. Aglaia Chryseis. a student of ancient Greek mythology, becomes interested in the new system and becomes an assistant to Athos. Her father, a seabed industry magnate, arranges to hire a former police undercover agent who infiltrates as a patient to incriminate the clinic and separate Aglaia from Athos.But the spy, Despina Ilia is also converted and becomes a second therapeutic assistant. Paris Xantus, a beginning screenwriter, suffering writer''s block receives successful therapy. His grandfather, the main movie tycoon in Salonika, protects his grandson as more promising than the father of Paris. a famous film director.The father of Aglaia schemes and plots to raid and destroy the clinic, allying with the medical association, then with the Salonika police. His daughter brings ancient mythology analysis into the new mirror-based psychiatry of Dr. Gavrion.

A series of stories cover several inventions and breakthroughs that could have occurred in an imagined Post-World War II America. They cover microwave faxing and storage, brain wave mental therapy, alongevity serum from the Soviet Union, synthetic gasoline from corn, electronic medical treatments, new zodiacs in astrology, cloud-seeding for whether control, a universal antiviral compound,, advanced steam- powered autos, a cure for alcoholism, advanced mirror therapy, and a major conflict between two schools of 1946 futurists.

Police Detective Skopo Kitanin wages a difficult conflict against the Readers, a vengeance-seeking group of vandals attacking the viroid communications of the planet Farmer. In the city of Kalender, Skopo joins with the librarian Dari Totmax and her brother, Mlem. The trio trace the vandals through a carnivore anti=vegetarian restaurant, a hydrotherapy hospital, and a viroid language school to two brothers, Prado and Zado Atat, trying to avenge their grandfather, who claimed to have invented viroid memory ribbons. They are traced to a poet''s colony on the yellow-snow mountain where the Readers operate from a cave. Skopo follows them to the dramafi lming industry on the sea coast and a theater on Eerie Island where viroid masks are being used. He captures the last of these brothers on local boats making raids on viroid studies where movies are produced.