Douglas Quail is
a simple clerk who wishes to visit Mars. Unable to afford it, he visits a company,
REKAL Incorporated, which promises to implant an "extra-factual
memory" of a trip to Mars as a secret agent. The procedure involves
administration of narkidrine, which causes Quail to remember and reveal that he
actually did go to Mars as a secret government agent. His conscious memories of
the trip have been erased, but his initial desire to sign up for the trip
cannot be removed. His memory is slowly coming back and this represents magical
realism because there are parts such as his mind being controlled by others
that appear normal and a part of reality. For example, the company can communicate with him
from within his mind and they know what he is thinking at all times.
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