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I get more of it, on the re-read - but it sure is busy book with lots of characters, and realities (true and false; or maybe…false and even falser).

The Mind Robber was an old Dr Who TV adventure, where the Doctor and his companions entered 'The Land of Fiction', the realm where fictional characters actually live. I hadn't seen it before I first read Head Games, but I had read Silverlock by John Myers Myers, and later read The Eyre Affair...this idea of acting as if certain fictional characters are 'real', and can 'go into' books somehow is popular.

I think this one deals with the 'Land of Fiction' concept, and when I first read this, not only had I not seen The Mind Robbers, but I hadn't even read the novel that sort of set this one up, Conundrum. So there was a lot coming at me to try and sort out. As the book went along I did figure out 'the rules' in play, mostly, and really enjoyed this one. But a re-read should be less confusing at the start.