Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #73496 in Books
• Published on: 1999-01-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Synopsis
Sara is walking in Central Park, when she is suddenly overcome by the smell of dead sea creatures, blackness and memories of excruciating pain, severed bodies and dismembered limbs. When she awakes she finds that she is no longer in her own body. She has become a Restoree.

From the Publisher
A classic story from a master of the genre.

From the Back Cover
There was a sudden stench of a dead sea creature... There was the horror of a huge black shape closing over her... There was nothing... Then there were pieces of memory... isolated fragments that were so horrible her mind refused to accept them... intense heat and shivering cold... excruciating pain... dismembered pieces of the human body... Sawn bones and searing screams... And when she awoke she found she was in a world that was not earth, and with a face and body that were not her face and body. She had become a Restoree...

Customer Reviews

Very good reading- fun.
This is one of Anne McCaffrey's very first novels, and for die hard fans as well as newbies this is a must read as the elements which make her later books enjoyable and addictive are all here.
Though the book is occasionally confusing- McCaffrey does like lots of similarily named characters, and her style has developed since this novel- it is still one of my favourites.
If you enjoy McCaffrey's skill with characters and her fascinating ideas, then definely read this one!

One of my favourites...
This book is more "mainstream" than most of Anne McCaffrey's with the Science Fiction bacsically just a background for a love story. But I love the way that the female lead actually has some guts, intelligence and useful skills. She holds her own with the men, and that can be unusual in books even now. The "feel good factor" will also keep this one of my favourites, even though some aspects are slightly unbelievable!

Daft, but fun
I was always slightly embarrassed about loving this book. But I've decided that there's nothing wrong with "chick-lit in space" (And let's be fair it pre-dates the latest rash of "boy meets girl with compications" by about 40 years!)

Sara is a likable lead and Harlan just the sort of hero you want - strong, brave, intelligent, passionate....you know the deal.

The idea of the human race and other creatures being used to feed more advanced races is actually pretty grim (and rather clever). And the zany meld of space flight and pusedo-middle ages works well.

This is fun, romantic read in an interesting sci-fi setting.