Review: This book prompts readers to think about their minds and sex
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 21, 2013
This is a thought-provoking short sci-fi story copyrighted in 1956 which contains an original rather clever idea about the human mind and about enjoying life on earth. A being from another planet, named Kcid, came to earth to help his fellow beings decide whether to settle earth, inhabit the bodies of earthlings, and live here. He is the second such being to come. The first seemed to enjoy life on earth so much he did not communicate his findings to his planet.Kcid finds that the earthlings are very backward and their science insufficiently developed. Some of their behaviors strike him as strange, especially their sexual desires. He also finds that they are different from beings in any planet; they have two minds, a conscious and a subconscious. The latter causes humans to do things that they would not want to do if they only used their conscious mind. Kcid finds that the subconscious leads to bizarre acts and what humans call insanity. He reports back that he wants to spend a vacation on earth.