Tuesday, 19 January 2010

SF: Man Plus by Frederik Pohl

Interesting one, this - it pays a lot of attention to the effects of cybernetic enhancement on the donor, rather than so much emphasis on the resulting capabilities. The terror when the previous candidate expires is palpable. The reasoning (we have to adapt a man to live natively on Mars) seems a little weak when he travels there with "normal" people equipped with space suits, but if you take the argument as a given the rest hangs together well.

Every now and then an anonymous narrator pops up saying how they have worked hard to do this and that. At the end you discover their identity, a thought provoking twist...

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