The Watcher
by Nicholas P. Oakley
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Pub Date Nov 01 2013 | Archive Date Aug 05 2018
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Description
Set in the far future, on the tribal world of Gaia, this debut science fiction novel tells the story of Tian, a young hunter struggling with loss of her childhood lover who disappeared under mysterious circumstances. When Tian’s tribe is threatened by violent slavers, she received help from a Watcher—a monstrous, mythical creature who is actually a genetically enhanced anthropologist from an advanced civilization. Through the juxtaposition of the precivilization tribes and the technologically advanced society of the Watchers, the novel explores themes of the role of ideology and tradition in daily life.
Advance Praise
"Tian's people are hunter-gatherer nomads determined to preserve their
consensus-driven, nonhierarchical society at all costs; by their lights,
they are a free people. They are also abjectly poor, brutally
conformist, willfully ignorant, and incapable of mustering a useful
response to the predatory Qah raiders. Exiled because of her
nonconformity, Tian encounters 578-MORI-AO142, one of the enigmatic
Watchers; from "Mori," Tian learns much about the greater universe that
her people have rejected, a universe whose brutal conflicts are about to
transform her world and Tian herself. Oakley's ambitions are greater
than his current skill-the frequent flashbacks are particularly
obtrusive-but he provides a degree of complexity in what could very
easily have been a one-sided didactic novel. This ambivalent examination
of an idealist society and its less than ideal behavior offers the hope
that Oakley will grow into a significant SF novelist."
—Publisher's Weekly
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781937276454 |
| PRICE | $12.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 230 |
