{"product_id":"the-continuous-katherine-mortenhoe-isbn-9781590179710","title":"The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe","description":"\u003cb\u003eA prescient 1970s sci-fi novel about death, celebrity, and the ubiquity of reality television, and the basis for the movie \u003ci\u003eDeath Watch\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKatherine 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, Kazuo Ishiguro’s \u003ci\u003eNever Let Me Go\u003c\/i\u003e, and the television series \u003ci\u003eBlack Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrilling psychological drama that is as wise about human nature as it is about the nature of technology.“Like his peers Philip K. Dick, Bernard Wolfe, and J.G. Ballard, D.G.  Compton had a special capacity for sensing the encroachment of what has  in fact become our present life. And, as with those writers at their  best—and \u003ci\u003eThe Con­­­­tinuous Katherine Mortenhoe\u003c\/i\u003e is Compton at  his best —he found a way to embody his apprehensions with a sympathy and  fascination and horror that puts the reader inside the skin of his  characters, and inside the skin of the world.” —Jonathan Lethem\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Considering\u003ci\u003e Katherine Mortenhoe\u003c\/i\u003e was originally published in 1974, the book is eerily relevant in a world where we’ve surrendered so much of our personal information to tech giants like Facebook and Google. It also reads like something written today, which is impressive for something written yesterday about tomorrow.”–Kevin Nguyen, \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Authenticity has always been a tricky concept, but in the era of social media, it’s downright weird. All the more striking, then, that one of the most cogent and damning critiques of its internet-age performance should be found in a novel published in 1974.” —Anna E. Clark, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“For a novel focusing on death (and how we examine it), this is a deeply unsentimental look at life, which makes the emotional sting that its ending contains that much more powerful.” —Tobias Carroll, Tor.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An eerie, prophetic vision of a not-too-distant future.”—Pasquale Iannone, \u003ci\u003eSight and Sound\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Compton  has been one of Britain’s most original and consistent novelists since  the late Sixties, but he has never received the attention he  deserves...Compton’s prose is fine-tuned, his human insights sharp, and  his narrative pace filled with the weird synchronicities and dissonances  of how violent things usually happen.”—Scott Bradfield, \u003ci\u003eThe Independent \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Guy Compton\u003c\/b\u003e is a speculative fiction writer. His 1970 novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Steel Crocodile\u003c\/i\u003e, was nominated for the Nebula Award, and in 1980 Bertrand Tavernier adapted \u003ci\u003eThe Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe \u003c\/i\u003efor the screen under the title \u003ci\u003eDeath Watch\u003c\/i\u003e. Compton lives in Maine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeff VanderMeer\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the Southern Reach trilogy (\u003ci\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAuthority\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAcceptance\u003c\/i\u003e) and, most recently, of the novel \u003ci\u003eBorne\u003c\/i\u003e, which was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke award. His nonfiction has appeared in many publications, including \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife, the editor Ann VanderMeer.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301974986981,"sku":"NP9781590179710","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590179710.jpg?v=1767738826","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-continuous-katherine-mortenhoe-isbn-9781590179710","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}