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"I wrote many novels which … contained the element of the projected collective unconscious, which made them simply incomprehensible to anyone who read them, because they required the reader to accept my premise that each of us lives in a unique world."
- Philip K. Dick

Plexiskin  
  A means of disguise.  

His own face is too well known for him to have investigated personally, and he's not enough of an actor to get away with using a plexiskin mask...
Technovelgy from A Spaceship Named McGuire, by Gordon Randall Garrett.
Published by Analog in 1961
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Compare to uniflesh from The Dosadi Experiment (1977) by Frank Herbert and the moon moth mask from The Moon Moth (1976) by Jack Vance.

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