Voices – Could It Become A Reality?

The central premise of my novel, Voices, is mind control. The Voices use direct communication in an effort to destabilise the central character Chris Deacon. And they do a damned good job. It’s only Chris’s determination and strong will that come to his aid.

That’s as much as I’m prepared to give away of the plot.

So what’s the reality behind it? Well obviously, there is no reality. It’s science fiction, with the emphasis on fiction.

As a long time (slightly sceptical) student of all things paranormal, I did some research and learned that the Americans and Russians experimented in these areas. The official line is that they experiments were, at best, inconclusive, and the American sessions were discontinued in the early 90s.

But that threw up a slight disparity. We all know that Great Britain and America have an agreement to share intelligence and other, related defence information. Presumably, then, the British knew of the American failure in remote viewing. Why, then, did the British decide to run their own experiments in 2001? Could it be that the US efforts produced slightly better results than we were led to believe? Disinformation is one of the best tools at the disposal of the intelligence community, and an admission that the experiments failed, would be the perfect way of letting them carry on in total secrecy.

The conspiracy theorists dream: and that of the political thriller, sci-fi thriller writer.

Now, however, we have a fresh spanner in the works. Well, I say spanner. Perhaps I really mean a machine for making spanners.

Browsing my news feeds this morning, I stumbled across this little tale in the business section of the BBC website. A chap playing a computer game, but his actions were dictated by someone else, someone in another building, and the only means of communication was the human mind.

Thought control may be about to become a reality.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23994649

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Voices: You cannot escape what is in your head.