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Feliks
Mar 21, 2013 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: genre-thrillers
Read this interesting SF novel a while ago (10 years ago I guess) and it concerned a man (perhaps an MD, a surgeon, or a scientist) who is diagnosed with incurable lung cancer. He refuses to accept it and opts to take part in experimental surgery. His lungs will be replaced with fish gills. He will survive and live out his natural lifespan; but he must live the rest of his life immersed in water. The operation is a success but after a while of being studied and kept in tanks--he grows restless-- ...more