Someone to Watch Over Me
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ISBN: 0553577026 / Publisher: Bantam, August 1997
Adrien Reyes, a trans whose body and brain are linked to his master--a Watcher--is chosen to be the receptacle of a piece of hardware that would enable the Watcher to inhabit another's body, but the implications of this technology could signify the end of the "self." Original.
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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 two entirely different takes on the experience. Adrien Reyes views the link as a trap he needs to escape, while Sabina Lazarich sees it as a chance at true empathy. But neither knows that the experimental brain implant, I, could give a dying Watcher a second chance, and it has targeted one of them as a host.
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