FROM: In 1947, Murray Leinster put on his thinking cap: BrainFi Gets in Your Head

If you're hoping for a book that offers something intriguing or legible about how science might be used to crack non-invasive brain communication, you'll be disappointed. This is not that kind of sci-fi. In fact, it's very clear that Leinster was writing to a specific length, and any number of times he gets a little hand-wavey to move to the next piece of the plot.

There's something refreshing about that. He wasn't crafting a masterpiece. He was doing a piece of work, because people wanted it. And they would pay for it. 

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