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Letter: Love the idea of seeing through another's eyes

Published 4 June 2025

From Hilda Beaumont, Brighton, UK

Rowan Hooper’s Future Chronicles instalment “Through their eyes” reminded me of the 1967 novel Night Walk by the Irish science fiction writer Bob Shaw. In this tale, the blind hero designs a device in the form of a pair of spectacles that transmit the signals in the optic nerves of nearby animals into his brain so that he can literally see through their eyes(10 May, p 22).

Issue no. 3546 published 7 June 2025

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