Someone to Watch Over Me

by Tricia Sullivan

Book Overview

The notion of identity has become clouded in a future where the Watchers are able to inhabit the bodies of well-paid slaves through satellite links.??Two people who have become surrogate bodies have... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553577026
• ISBN13: 9780553577020
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Bantam
• Length: 357 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

a compulsive read

This is a good one, and hard to put down. The story is interesting, and the characters are very strong. I did feel that it fell apart a little at the end, but the pleasure of the rest of the book made up for it.

Satisfying

Solid, satisfying and well-plotted, 'Someone to Watch Over Me' demonstrates an interest in identity and the body Tricia Sullivan shares with many of the cyberpunks and in particular, Pat Cadigan. But this is post-cyberpunk with better language - rich vivid and dense at times but never off the point. Like some other recent SF writers she sets up characters who look like cyberpunk stereotypes (karate-kicking street kid with a heart of gold etc.), but who in fact turn out to vulnerable, messed-up and, well, human. But it's missing something that I can't quite work out... perhaps a particular spark of originality that would have made it something really special.

Fun; filled with great ideas; impressive use of language!

This is one of the best sci-fi books I have ever read. It is a tightly-plotted, well written novel that takes you places you've never been, and makes you think about everything from this media-driven world, to the nature of the divine. All while being thoroughly entertaining!By far the most impressive thing about this book for me was Ms. Sullivan's use of language. I found myself amazed on nearly every page by the freshness of her descriptions. Describing a sunset as being the color of ripe cantaloupe. Ah, to be able to write like that!In short, this is a fun, fun book that is also quite thought provoking and full of genuine literary merit. Buy this one!

Vivid account of living vicariously in the very near future.

Ms. Sullivan's lucid writing takes the reader into the hearts, minds, and landscapes ("he wore New York like a mantle") of her subjects as vividly as the novel's victims are inhabited by their "watchers." "Someone.." is a frightening and literate vision of what technology and misplaced power could hold in the very near future