I highly recommend this book. It was amazing all throughout, with no major boring parts. From start to finish it was intense and really made me think. It definitely makes it up on the list with Under a Calculating Star as one of my favorites.
It kicks off with a group of men exploring the frontiers of their new planet, Pulsar 143. After a short while, strange ships appear and the men are forced to take them down before they can recharge and invade the planet further. This is where I would normally think that the novel really starts, but it isn't. After destroying the fleet and being left alone, the captain goes back home, where he is promoted to one of the highest offices in the city, that of the Orrery commandant. The Orrery is a machine that can instantly paralyze and enslave the entire city, which is very against the original constitution of the planet, much to the dislike of the protagonist. Then he launches a mission to destroy the regime, along with the help of an underground organization. I will not spoil the end for anybody that has not read the book yet, but you really should read it.
As I was reading the book, I wondered as to what the "mind code" was, so I looked it up. As it turns out, Francis Fauvel-Gouraud, one of the people responsible for the invention of the mind code, was actually a real person, and his word coding system has the same attribute. If you want to look at his work, it is genuinely interesting. There are samples of applications of the Phreno-Mnemotechnic code in the back of the book. Here is the link for the file. Have a good day.
https://archive.org/details/phrenomnemotech00milegoog
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