Author(s): D G Compton

Fiction

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: Shewill 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."