Kipper's Game.

• Author: Conniff, Ruth
• Position: Brief Article

The same concept sneaks into Kipper's Game (HarperCollins), Barbara Ehrenreich's new science-fiction novel--a surprising departure from her political writing into spiritual and extraterrestrial realms. One mysterious element in the plot is a game that expands the human mind through the pleasure principal, leading to a higher plane of consciousness.

Some critics disdained it as a loopy, fanciful story. But it seems to me exactly the role of the liberal-minded person...