- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: New English Library Ltd; New edition edition (1 Jan 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0450489035
- ISBN-13: 978-0450489037
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.7 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,259,344 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This novel, set in 2175, describes how humans can now decide to alter their physical form on the merest cosmetic whim, which means there are rich pickings for investors in the cosmetic companies. Bey Woolf, a member of the Office Form Control, encounters Dr Capman, whose activities are suspect. Charles Sheffield is a past President of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He has also written "Proteus Unbound".
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intrigueing sf mystery,
By awblundell@hotmail.com (Warwickshire,England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sight of Proteus (Paperback)
Form control - the technology which allows manipulation of the human form using biofeedback techniques allied with computers.This novel is set in a future where humanity has spread throughout the solar system and is beginning to use these techniques to adapt non earth environments as well as for medical and cosmetic reasons. The technology can be dangerous and is strictly regulated - our hero, Bey Wolf is top man in the Office of Form control. The story centres around two mysteries which fall to Bey to investigate. The first is a transplant organ for which the DNA is not on file in a world where everybody's DNA is recorded soon after birth. The second is the discovery of the bodies of two outworlders - evidently killed by a form change which went disastrously wrong. Some of the ideas have been used before in James Blish's 'The Seedling Stars', for example and the alien form into which Bey's sidekick was changed is reminiscent of Larry Niven's Pak, although the choice of character name (Bey Wolf) suggests an older source of inspiration.
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5.0 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews) 5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Among Sheffield's best work,
By grolsche "grolsche" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sight of Proteus (Mass Market Paperback)
At his best, Sheffield fits in the category with Larry Niven in that Sheffield is able to deliver a fully developed world driven by several far-sighted predictions of where technology and need will drive mankind. Sheffield seems to produce his very best material when he writes solo and (frankly) when he writing 20 years ago. "Sight of Proteus" fits both those parameters, and in my opinion is among the two or three best that Sheffield ever produced. The story is based in a world where changes to the human form can be ordered from a public catalog - and of course the darker underworld where prohibited changes can be obtained. In an over-populated world where underground scientists are willing to push the envelope of human form and evolution, this novel broke new ground pushing the "what if?" question related to human potential. I have the paperback in its 1978 edition and it has a permanent place in my SF collection. 3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Just proves again what a genius he is.,
By "phyed-rautha" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sight of Proteus (Mass Market Paperback)
Its the first book in a series of three. Some real good advanced biothechnology,intristing lead charecter,good plot. He really took his time and thoght about all kinds of human forms. Get the trilogy,if you know whats good hard science fiction is.
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