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I just reread THE CONTINUOUS KATHERINE MORTENHOE by D. G. Compton, also known as THE UNSLEEPING EYE. It’s a near-future book written in 1974, set in a world without cell phones, streaming services, or death from illness. As Jeff VanderMeer, who wrote the preface to the edition I read, said:
Sometimes a novel is so complex it’s simple. Take D. G. Compton’s science-fiction work The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe. The book chronicles the dystopian adventures of a woman who’s told she has four weeks to live in a world where death from incurable diseases has been virtually eliminated. Compton builds an intricately imagined and believable near future not so different from our own, complete with wildly popular reality shows that feed the appetite of a public described as “pain-starved.”
Jeff VanderMeer
It was worth the reread.
I saw that there was a 1980 film based on it, DEATH WATCH, starring Harvey Keitel, my imaginary funny-looking boyfriend, so I rented it online for $0.99 and tried to watch it.
It was almost aggressively 1980s, and had none — NONE — of the charisma of the book. I tried twice to watch it, and I just can’t.
My nails this week are leafy, as a last hurrah for summer. They are green and green and green and green.
A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO YOU: Green leaves
MA
Daniel Antion
September 9, 2025 at 8:55amExcellent goodbye summer nails. When a movie doesn’t do justice to the book it was inspired by, I get frustrated. I usually turn the movie off and start rereading the book.