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threemonkeysI am sure that I have read Indoctrinaire by Christopher Priest before. Despite not owning a copy , I would have sworn to having read it. Well I was sure until I attempted to (re)read it. I don't remember any of it. It could be that it is, probably because it is his first, the most ordinary of Priest's novels. I mean ordinary in terms of the writing skill shown. It is rather patchy. When it was written, the subject area was fairly ordinary too. That was in 1970 when behavioural science was considered a fit subject for SF authors. For reasons related to general social attitudes towards behavioural studies, it is not a targets for authors very often these days. I am sure a behavioural scientist would be fascinated by my inability to determine whether I had read this book before.