Comments on: Story ID: girl/gorilla

Question: Story ID: girl/gorilla

arcticwoman — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:17:45 -0800

Yet-another-story-ID: Girl's brain in a gorilla's body.

I remember reading this book when I was a kid that was about a girl who had either a fatal illness or injury and in a last-ditch effort to save her, they (doctors and family, I presume) transplanted her brain into the body of a simian (I seem to think it was a gorilla). I remember it being a fairly long book (for a kid, anyways) and I seem to think it had a short title - maybe one word, possibly the name of the girl.

I realise this is not a lot to go on, but it was the first book that seriously challenged my conception of self, and I would really like to find it again.

By: tangerine

tangerine — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:25:27 -0800

It's Eva by Peter Dickinson.

By: Zed_Lopez

Zed_Lopez — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:29:38 -0800

It wasn't a long kid's book, so isn't what you're looking for, but you might also enjoy Pat Murphy's Rachel in Love, with that premise.

By: arcticwoman

arcticwoman — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:39:00 -0800

Well that was quick! Thanks.

By: ubersturm

ubersturm — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:07:38 -0800

[It was a chimpanzee, by the way.]

By: tweebiscuit

tweebiscuit — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:08:18 -0800

I loved that book.

By: arcticwoman

arcticwoman — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:55:03 -0800

For the future: is there anywhere else I can ask ID questions so that I don't waste my AskMefi for the week?

By: tangerine

tangerine — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:07:58 -0800

I loved that book.

Me too. I like everything he's written, especially his subtle, thoughtful, retrospective adult mysteries.

He wrote an interesting letter in response to an article about Eva on his website. There's also an interesting note in the Bibliography/YA page of the site, which won't accept direct links for some reason.

By: nmiell

nmiell — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:10:03 -0800

rec.arts.sf.written covers the scifi/fantasy genres.

Prefix your subject with YASID and include as much detail as you can remember in the body of the message.

By: amro

amro — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:12:14 -0800

Weird, I was just telling someone about this book the other day... I must have read it 15 years ago but it has really stuck with me.

By: easternblot

easternblot — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:21:48 -0800

I can't believe nobody has ever told me about this book! Monkeys, brains... and the title is my name!
I don't particularly like Peter Dickinson, but this has to be awesome! I'm so getting this from the library right now.

By: Aknaton

Aknaton — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 22:19:58 -0800

Steve Martin's The Man With Two Brains.

"But... I can't fuck a gorilla."

By: rob511

rob511 — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 04:56:53 -0800

I believe she's just finished her first tour of the Middle East....