The Many Selves of Katherine North
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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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Emma Geen. (2016). The Many Selves of Katherine North. Bloomsbury Publishing.
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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.
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- content: Startlingly fresh . . . Along with the protagonist I became a tiger, an eagle, a whale. I hunted, flew and swam in this extraordinary book which goes to the heart of what it means to be alive in a shared universe.
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- content: As Darwinists and shamans know, the species barrier is porous. But how does it feel to commute across it? In this exhilarating metaphysical white-knuckle ride Geen takes us into the other worlds that crouch, slink and bark around us. It's an audacious tour de force that will leave you reeling with ontological vertigo.
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- content: Kit is a fascinating protagonist, and the descriptions of the animal lives she "lives" are wonderfully detailed.
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- content: A compulsively readable sci-fi thriller . . . fantastic . . . The Many Selves of Katherine North would be an accomplishment from any writer, but the fact that this book comes from a first-time novelist is simply astonishing. Emma Geen has built a vivid and wildly engaging world around an incredibly compelling protagonist, creating a piece of work that transcends genre. No qualifiers are needed; this is a great book, full stop.
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In a near-future setting with dark undertones, teen Katherine “Kit” North works as a phenomenaut, projecting her consciousness into the bodies of various lab-grown animals to study how they experience their natural environments. Together with her trusted partner, Buckley, who monitors her original body and vital signs in the lab, she has projected steadily for seven years, becoming the world’s most experienced phenomenaut. But when she is shifted from research to the tourism department, which lets novice phenomenauts inhabit the minds of wild animals, Kit begins to have serious doubts about the ethics and intentions of her company. The descriptions of animal projection are detailed and intriguing, but the story devolves into a dizzying morass of paranoia and animal instinct as the plot loses coherence. Readers of literary novels may enjoy the psychological aspects, but SF fans will be disappointed that the speculative elements are little more than background.
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In the near future, Kit works as a "phenomenaut" for the Shen Corporation, projecting human consciousness into lab-grown animals (such as a fox, a spider, and a seal). The beast, embedded with Kit's human intelligence, then lives in a natural environment. Shen Corp. has used Kit's research, and those of others like her, to study these creatures and their habitats. Now 19, Kit has been doing this for seven years, longer than thought possible. Then the company announces that it will be expanding into "tourism," placing human consciousness into artificially developed beings. The new phenomenauts won't have experience in jumping but will only be doing it as a kind of vacation. This raises ethical issues for Kit, who then digs deeper into Shen's business model and makes an unsettling discovery. VERDICT Kit is a fascinating protagonist, and the descriptions of the animal lives she "lives" are wonderfully detailed. However, the multiple time lines are difficult to untangle at times. Despite its ambitions, Geen's first novel stumbles a bit in its execution.--Jennifer Mills, Shorewood-Troy Lib., IL
Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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In the not-so-distant future, 19-year-old Katherine North, known as Kit, works for a corporation that specializes in zoological research, ShenCorp. Kit's work involves projecting her consciousness into different animals to better understand their behaviors. Kit is asked by ShenCorp to assist customers with their own jumps into various animals, which she does with the personal goal of helping people to understand animals. However, when she realizes that people are not changed by the experience, the new job creates an ethical dilemma for Kit, who truly loves and values animals. Kit is also rethinking her career, because she has started to notice anomalies during her jumps and feels herself acting uncharacteristically. Kit's experiences as an animal are some of the best moments in the novel, because they allow Geen's lyrical prose to truly shine. The varied terminology Geen creates to reinforce her world can be a barrier to comprehending all of the details, but this book is a great match for readers who were fans back in the day of the popular teen series Animorphs.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)
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