The Unsleeping Eye (novel)
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The Unsleeping Eye is a 1974 science fiction novel by British writer David G. Compton. It was published in the United Kingdom as The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe in 1974 and was filmed by Bertrand Tavernier in 1980 as Death Watch, starring Harvey Keitel, Romy Schneider and Max von Sydow. Subsequent editions of the novel were published as Death Watch.
Premise
The story is set in the near future, in a welfare state. A journalist is operated on so that what he sees is transmitted to a TV studio. He pursues a woman who is dying of an incurable disease, and provides viewers with voyeuristic images of her private anguish.
Reception
Theodore Sturgeon praised The Unsleeping Eye as a novel that "fulfills all of its extraordinary promise."[1] In 2016, Jeff VanderMeer wrote, "In an age in which privacy isn’t just vanishing but willfully renounced, The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe seems not only relevant but proactively current."[2]
Reiter
The book was republished under the original title of The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe by New York Review Books in 2016 (Template:ISBN) with an introduction by Jeff VanderMeer.
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References
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- ↑ "Galaxy Bookshelf", Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1974, p.93
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