On a colony ship bound outward across the stars, not everyone is a volunteeror even human. Lovelock is a capuchin monkey engineered from conception to be the perfect servant: intelligent, agile, anddevoted to his owner. He is a "witness, " privileged to spend his days and nightsrecording the life of one of Earth's most brilliant scientists via digitaldevices implanted behind his eyes. But Lovelock is something special amongwitnesses. He's a little smarter than most humans: smart enough to breakthrough some of his conditioning, smart enough to feel the bonds of slaveryandwant freedom.