Mind Control

Mind Control describes a near-future world with two separate communities. In one greed and disregard for nature dominate, and in the other love and care for the environment are most important. Using communication, felt, rather than spoken, the latter, succeeds in overcoming the egotism and selfishness of the former. This gentle revolution is let by a young girl, May, who has the ability of thought communication to an extraordinary degree. Eventually, even a former, ruthless leader begins to change after he is isolated with an accomplice on a remote island. Radmila Boruvka Raikow was born in Prague, Czech Republic. She and her family immigrated to the US to escape Stalinist persecutions, and became naturalized, US citizens. With a PhD in genetics, she spent a career doing research in basic and medical biology. Mind Control as well as her two earlier novels, deal with interaction between two points of view: the first, Heterosis, published under her maiden name, Radmila Boruvkova, deals with Polynesian and Western cultures; and the second, Where Is My Home ?, describes two young people, Rachel and Karl, a Jew and a Nazi soldier, who fall in love in the shambles of post-war Czechoslovakia.