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The Many Selves of Katherine North
The Many Selves of Katherine North
The Many Selves of Katherine North
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When we first meet Kit, she's a fox.
Nineteen-year-old Kit works for the research department of Shen Corporation as a phenomenaut. She's been “jumping”--projecting her consciousness, through a neurological interface--into the bodies of lab-grown animals made for the purpose of research for seven years, which is longer than anyone else at ShenCorp, and longer than any of the scientists thought possible. She experiences a multitude of other lives--fighting and fleeing as predator and prey, as mammal, bird, and reptile--in the hope that her work will help humans better understand the other species living alongside them.

Her closest friend is Buckley, her Neuro--the computer engineer who guides a phenomenaut through consciousness projection. His is the voice, therefore, that's always in Kit's head and is the thread of continuity that connects her to the human world when she's an animal. But when ShenCorp's mission takes a more commercial--and ominous--turn, Kit is no longer sure of her safety. Propelling the reader into the bodies of the other creatures that share our world, The Many Selves of Katherine North takes place in the near future but shows us a dazzling world far, far from the realm of our experience.
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Release dateJun 7, 2016
ISBN9781632860231
The Many Selves of Katherine North
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Emma Geen

Emma Geen is a speculative thinker and writer whose fiction draws on her education in Psychology and Philosophy. She is studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, where she won the 2012 Janklow & Nesbit Bath Spa Prize. This is her debut novel. emmacgeen.wordpress.com @EmmaCGeen

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    I loved the sections where the protagonist lived life through animal senses - very vivid and expressive - however the story that wrapped round these luminous interludes was fairly lame. If the author had thought through the science and tech implications more rigorously it could have been a very good book, as it is the idea of building live animal bodies from the size of a spider to a whale in a lab then shipping them around the world into their "natural" habitats for research into wild behaviour is totally implausible as written. The rest of the story is just standard EvilCorp machinations.

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