Ambitious and entertaining, but I will admit, actually quite silly and unbelievable in a lot of parts. There are also things that just werent explained. After being blinded by an enemy interstellar agent, Sam Tallon (our hero) goes to a prison on the planet Emm Luther where he invents, with the help of another blind prisoner, a goggle set that will allow a blind person to "see" through another being's eyes (read: human, bird, dog, rat, anything with a set of working eyes). The concept is extremely neato, but doesnt make any scientific sense whatsoever. What you do get is a lot of amusing scenarios involving the split screen vision of a pigeon (extreme close-up of his own ear and whatever else the pigeon is looking at with the other eye), scenes where Sam has to hold a dog up to his face in order to get a line of sight on something, and seeing his enemy looking through the line of sight on a gun aimed at himself. It was a good read, a good romp, but dont expect to be enlightened by it. Nevertheless, I will be giving Bob Shaw at least one more shot to get an overall idea of his capabilities
