Charles Sheffield - My Brother's Keeper

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TIME-SHARING TWINS

Lionel Salkind was a rising musical star. His twin brother, Leo Foss, was a researcher in

government work that he couldn't talk about. Then the helicopter they were flying

crashed.

When he woke up, Lionel learned that both he and Leo had sustained fatal injuries,

and he was only alive because the surgeon had used organs from Leo to repair Lionel's

slightly less damaged body. More than half of Lionel's brain was gone, and had been

replaced with Leo's. Lionel, in fact, had become His Brother's Keeper!

Customer Reviews

Avg. Customer Review:

Great Action Thriller - Misleading cover, October 13, 2000

Reviewer

: I am glad that this book is being reprinted. I have worn out previous copies reading

them.

As a mystery thriller, it is one of the best I have read. On top of that, as an SF book,

the 'science' of the story is intriguing.

The plot and the characterization of the two brothers is what takes this book from 4

stars to 5 stars. The antagonist is truly evil.

Oh yes, the cover.. Have a sense of humor.. The 'hero' is supposed to be a pianist. The

cover looks like the 'Hulk'.

Enjoy!!!! Does two (minds) into one (body) go?, October 2, 2000

Reviewer

: Lionel Salkind, a world-class pianist, meets his twin brother Leo Foss (a naturalised

american CIA agent) only for both of them to sustain fatal injuries in a not-so-accidental

helicopter crash. Doctors manage to save Lionel by transplanting half of Leo's brain into

his less-damaged body. In consequence, Lionel finds that his dead twin is still alive,

buried within his brain. In three months, Leo will be able to communicate directly with

Lionel and the outside world - but Leo's enemies don't know which twin survived, and

are taking steps to protect themselves, and the mysterious "Belur package" they took

from Leo's body...

An interesting premise - all the more so when you consider that everything in the

novel is theoretically possible. Lionel is clearly a more conservative character than his

James Bond clone brother (who seems to have girlfriends or wives in every corner of the

globe), and is desperately trying to make a new life for himself, knowing that his brain

damage has almost certainly ruined his playing, while his emotional centres have been

replaced by Leo's. And, of course, there is a 70% chance that when his brain and Leo's

finally knit together, that he will suffer a fatal stroke.

A gripping biotechno-thriller, with a limping, battered, possibly dying protagonist, I

strongly recommend this book

a younger effort but a great read!, September 8, 2000

Reviewer

: i read this one by accident, years ago, when i thought it looked interesting in the

bookstore and i had never heard of the author before. since then i think i have reread it a

dozen times. a little choppy in the progression of the storyline, but a neat premise. twin

brothers, separated at birth and raised apart by different family members, develop

different lives as adults. but being twins enables them to be perfect matches for each

other when an accident nearly takes both lives and the organs of one are harvested to save

the other. this includes part of each brother's brain- when the nerves begin to reconnect,

the survivor starts experiencing memories of the dead twin's secret life... and it turns out

he's not the only one who wants to understand the rest.

Futuristic James Bond, May 30, 2000

Reviewer:

I This book was better then I had thought it would be. I read the novel because nothing

else was available. The premise is a bit of a stretch and the writing is sometimes

confusing. Even with all these faults I found the book a good read and I have no regrets

spending a few hours with it. This being said, I doubt I will recall anything about this

book in two months. Not exactly a great classic.

My Brother's Keeper

TIME-SHARING TWINS

Lionel Salkind was a rising musical star. His twin brother, Leo Foss, was a researcher in

government work that he couldn't talk about. Then the helicopter they were flying

crashed.

When he woke up, Lionel learned that both he and Leo had sustained fatal injuries, and

he was only alive because the surgeon had used organs from Leo to repair Lionel's

slightly less damaged body. More than half of Lionel's brain was gone, and had been

replaced with Leo's Lionel, in fact, had become.

HIS BROTHERS KEEPER

"Sheffield's science is fascinating and convincing and so are his scientists."

-Joe Haldeman

"Charles Sheffield is one of the very best hard science fiction writers in the world."

-Kim Stanley Robinson

"Sheffield's uncommon vision and storytelling skill will keep you on the edge of your

seat."

-David Brin

"One of the most imaginative, exciting talents to appear on the science fiction scene. . . "

-Publishers Weekly

Cover art by Gary Ruddell

Paperback

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are

fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, June 2000

Distributed by Simon & Schuster

1230 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10020

Printed in the United States of America

ISBN: 0-671-57873-1

in any form.

A Baen Books Original

Baen Publishing Enterprises

P.O. Box 1403

Riverdale, NY 10471

http://www.baen.com

Typeset by Windhaven Press

Auburn, NH

Electronic version by WebWrights

http://www.webwrights.com

A MAN OF PARTS

Sir Westcott read from a folder in a flat, toneless voice. It was my list of injuries. If I had

been feeling sick when the surgeon began his catalog, I grew sicker as he went on with it.

Then he coughed and read, "Prognosis: terminal."

I remembered the punch line of an old tall story: "So what happened to you then, Bill?"

"What happened to me? Why, I died, of course."

I gave a sort of hysterical titter. "What are you telling me? That I died and now I'm in

Hell?"

"Nothing so sensational. Let me finish." Westcott pulled another sheet of paper from his

folder. "Your brother. It tells the same story. Prognosis: terminal. For ten different

reasons."

"It's been a month since the accident, and I'm still alive."

"Alive, and doing very well. But your brother Leo was in worse shape even than you

were. He was sinking before we could even get him into the theater. I had to make a

decision."

"You killed Leo!"

"No." He glowered down at me. "Your brother was a hopeless case, absolutely hopeless.

And you were terribly injured. I had to make a decision. Save one, or save none. You

died as much as Leo did."

"I'm here, and he isn't."

"Don't be too sure of that. You lost partial segments from three main brain lobes, but you

had the brain stem and the midbrain completely intact. I took parts of Leo's brain, and

used them to replace the lobe segments you lost."

"But Leo's dead. I don't feel half like Leo, and half like myself. I'm Lionel Salkind."

"All that proves is that you have the verbal part of the brain under control. That's all in

your left hemisphere. If you want my honest opinion, yes, I think that Leo is still alive, in

some sense, and he's inhabiting part of your skull."

He closed the folder. "And at some time—don't ask me when and where, or even how—I

expect the two halves of the brain to integrate again. You'll become a single individual.

And beyond that, I can't go."

BAEN BOOKS by CHARLES SHEFFIELD

My Brother's Keeper

Between the Strokes of Night

The Compleat McAndrew

Convergent Series

Transvergence

The Mind Pool

Proteus in the Underworld

Borderlands of Science

My Brother's Keeper

Table of Contents

My Brother's Keeper

TIME-SHARING TWINS

HIS BROTHERS KEEPER

ISBN: 0-671-57873-1

A MAN OF PARTS

BAEN BOOKS by CHARLES SHEFFIELD

My Brother's Keeper

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