D. G. Compton

D.G. Compton's extraordinary novel is a forgotten classic of British SF that exposed the pitfalls of voyeuristic entertainment decades before the likes of 'The Truman Show'.

The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe

Jeff VanderMeer

Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe

En un futuro, no muy lejano de nuestro presente, la ciencia médica ha logrado vencer a la muerte. Las pocas excepciones proporcionan el material para un nuevo programa de televisión dirigido a masivas audiencias ávidas de presenciar la muerte en directo de otras personas. Cuando a Katherine Mortenhoe le comunican que tiene cuatro semanas de vida, sabe que no es solo su vida la que está a punto de perder, sino también su privacidad

La continua Katherine Mortenhoe

Katherine Mortenhoe lives in a near future very similar to the present day. Only in her time, dying from anything but old age is unheard of; death has been cured. So when Katherine is diagnosed with a terminal brain disease brought on by an inability to process an ever increasing volume of sensory input, she immediately becomes a celebrity to the “pain-starved public.” But Katherine rejects her tragic role: She will not agree to be the star of a Human Destiny TV show, her last days will not be documented or broadcast. What she doesn’t realize is that from the moment of diagnosis she’s been watched, not only by television producers but by a new kind of program host, a man with a camera behind his unsleeping eyes. Like Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, and the television series Black Mirror, The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe is a thrilling psychological drama that is as wise about human nature as it is about the nature of technology.

Charles Stross

George R. R. Martin

Howard Waldrop

Darrell Schweitzer

Brian Herbert

Kevin J. Anderson

Jack Dann

Joe W. Haldeman

James Morrow

Tom Purdom

Harry Turtledove

Esther M. Friesner

Geoffrey A. Landis

Zoran Zivkovic

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Gregory Frost

Darrell Schweitzer interviews seventeen science fiction writers. Included are scintillating conversations with: George R. R. Martin, James Morrow, Jack Dann, Geoffrey A. Landis, Joe W. Haldeman, Zoran Zivkovic, Esther M. Friesner, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Harry Turtledove, Gregory Frost, Tom Purdom, D. G. Compton, Robert J. Sawyer, Charles Stross, Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, and Howard Waldrop.

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