Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Those Who Watch by Those Who Watch. THOSE WHO WATCH is the strange, seductive novel of three inadvertent colonists from outer space whose accidental encounter with Earth triggers interplanetary conflict. It also the most unusual love story ever written. VORNEEN — the seducer, in the shell of an Apollo who came out of nowhere into the life of Kathryn Mason. GLAIR — the perfect woman, an empty form who filled the hours of Tom Faulkner [sic] MIRTIN — otherworldly friend and mentor to an 11-year-old Indian boy who accepted the extraordinary on faith. ONLY THREE HUMANS WOULD EVER KNOW that the blinding flash in the sky on that night in 1982 was an exploding flying saucer. Only they would learn the truth about THOSE WHO WATCH —about the alien beings who came to this world in a crash landing from the stars. Comments: I can't say what reading this book would have been like back when it was written, but today it reads a lot like an episode of The X-Files . All we're missing is the intrepid FBI agents tracking down the aliens. In many ways, Those Who Watch is a good light read. The plot buzzes along nicely, and the characters are for the most part well-drawn. The whole thing tends to fall apart if you examine it closely however, and it is this that keeps the book from joining the ranks of Silverberg's finest. As with a number of the other earlier works (notably The Seed of Earth ), I find it frustrating to read. There really is the core of a good story in here, but Silverberg just hadn't found the proper way to tell it yet. I like the idea of the aliens watching the earth with strict rules against being detected; I like the idea of the emergency landing separating the aliens; I like the idea of humans nursing them back to health. Problems crop up if you analyze or ask many questions. How could Colonel Falkner get Glair to his home without raising suspicions? How did the American military search turn up nothing? What happened to the ambitious Captain Bronstein? If these questions and others had been worked out more carefully, the story would have been a lot more suspenseful. I can picture Falkner holed up in his house with Glair, all unaware that the authorities are closing in on him. There's also a rather blatant "smoking gun" in Chapter Nine that is never followed up. But enough of what's not in the book. The alien culture is intriguing but mysterious, never explained very much. Their motivations for watching us are more hinted than spelled out. The story takes place in a 60s version of the 80s, with some technology more advanced than really happened (common electric cars, personal jet aircraft) and some less advanced (no satellite communications). The six main characters are well-rounded, though some of the secondary characters are little more than placeholders. All in all, it's a quick enjoyable read, though not among Silverberg's great works. This is the last of what I think of as Silverberg's early novels. After Those Who Watch he moved into the classic period of the late 60s and early 70s. Other resources: Page generated 15 June 2021 22:06:09. Acknowledgements: Robert Silverberg for cause, support, and cooperation; Ken Seamon for graphics; Rodney Walters for books and info; Alvaro Zinos-Amaro for comments and content; and all the fellow fans who have sent encouragement, information, and translations. Those Who Watch. Only three human beings would ever know the truth about that the blinding flash of light in the New Mexico sky in 1982. Only they would learn the truth about . . . Those Who Watch. 'The explosion was painfully bright against the dark backdrop of the moonless New Mexico sky. To those who looked up at that precise moment - and there were many who happened to look up - it was as though a new star had momentarily blossomed in blue-white incandescence.' 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THOSE WHO WATCH is the strange, seductive novel of three inadvertent colonists from outer space whose accidental encounter with Earth triggers interplanetary conflict. It also the most unusual love story ever written. VORNEEN — the seducer, in the shell of an Apollo who came out of nowhere into the life of Kathryn Mason. GLAIR — the perfect woman, an empty form who filled the hours of Tom Faulkner [sic] MIRTIN — otherworldly friend and mentor to an 11-year-old Indian boy who accepted the extraordinary on faith. ONLY THREE HUMANS WOULD EVER KNOW that the blinding flash in the sky on that night in 1982 was an exploding flying saucer. Only they would learn the truth about THOSE WHO WATCH —about the alien beings who came to this world in a crash landing from the stars. Comments. I can't say what reading this book would have been like back when it was written, but today it reads a lot like an episode of The X-Files . All we're missing is the intrepid FBI agents tracking down the aliens. In many ways, Those Who Watch is a good light read. The plot buzzes along nicely, and the characters are for the most part well-drawn. The whole thing tends to fall apart if you examine it closely however, and it is this that keeps the book from joining the ranks of Silverberg's finest. As with a number of the other earlier works (notably The Seed of Earth ), I find it frustrating to read. There really is the core of a good story in here, but Silverberg just hadn't found the proper way to tell it yet. I like the idea of the aliens watching the earth with strict rules against being detected; I like the idea of the emergency landing separating the aliens; I like the idea of humans nursing them back to health. Problems crop up if you analyze or ask many questions. How could Colonel Falkner get Glair to his home without raising suspicions? How did the American military search turn up nothing? What happened to the ambitious Captain Bronstein? If these questions and others had been worked out more carefully, the story would have been a lot more suspenseful. I can picture Falkner holed up in his house with Glair, all unaware that the authorities are closing in on him. There's also a rather blatant "smoking gun" in Chapter Nine that is never followed up. But enough of what's not in the book. The alien culture is intriguing but mysterious, never explained very much. Their motivations for watching us are more hinted than spelled out. The story takes place in a 60s version of the 80s, with some technology more advanced than really happened (common electric cars, personal jet aircraft) and some less advanced (no satellite communications). The six main characters are well-rounded, though some of the secondary characters are little more than placeholders. All in all, it's a quick enjoyable read, though not among Silverberg's great works. This is the last of what I think of as Silverberg's early novels. After Those Who Watch he moved into the classic period of the late 60s and early 70s. Other resources. Acknowledgements: Robert Silverberg for cause, support, and cooperation; Ken Seamon for graphics; Rodney Walters for books and info; Alvaro Zinos-Amaro for comments and content; and all the fellow fans who have sent encouragement, information, and translations. transhuman adj. When a Frenchman proudly informs you that he is ‘pere de famille’ (the father of a family), he means that he owns a son or a daughter. With undivided sway the newcomer rules, not the nursery (nurseries being unknown in France), but the entire household. He is regarded as a quite transhuman entity, a phenomenon, a small divinity whose humour under no circumstances whatever is to be crossed.] When you return to my office, you’ll be much more deeply aware of the meaning of this unique and wonderful moment in human and transhuman history. There were the saucer people: superb specimens of transhuman life, muscular, magnificent, with expressions of ineffable wisdom. But we must remind ourselves how this challenges the writer. The storyteller must interpret the transhuman condition to humans. He must convince the tired wage earner, relaxing with a beer and baseball, or watching Mary Hartman’s friend drown in a bowl of chicken soup, that superhumans are interesting and sympatico. ‘Chanson Perpetuelle’, from a work in progress by Thomas M. Disch is one of these. It is used to lead off this transhuman future anthology; a bit of a mistake since you hate for this tale to end. They will resemble their parents except in some not so subtle respects. They will be hermaphrodites and lack human hormonal responses. They will be logical, not emotional. They will move differently; they will think differently. They will be transhuman. These guys are freaks , Professor! You could rain transhuman treasure on them and they’d call it spit! Time for a major overhaul, one that would take the human animal to a new level, to a more fitting, trans human condition. The other [i.e., mythic writing or magical realism] is an exploration of elements taken as expressing, and therefore as implicitly symbolizing, certain deep-lying aspects of human and transhuman existence. They believe the Techno-Rapture will happen on or about February 13th, 2013, with waves of nanoassemblers spreading across the planet and rewiring the carbon-unit brains in one rapturous orgy of transhuman uploading, a veritable Drexlerian rhapsody in blue goo. If the relationship between man and artifact is simultaneously both chaotic and prosaic, the vision of technology infinitely extended—the trans- human era—is a steady-state universe where the unbelievable is taken as a given. He’s still explaining to her how he’s laying the foundations for the transhuman explosion due early in the next decade when she picks him up in both arms, carries him to her bedroom, and commits outrageous acts of tender intimacy with him.