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 by: Titus G - Wed, 5 Oct 2022 04:40 UTC

Limbo '90 Bernard Wolfe.

Limbo, technically the state before adding prosthetics after amputation
of all limbs.
The Penguin Book cover claims "use of cybernetics to add new element of
terror to Science Fiction" but it is so much more than that shallow
promotional puffery.
Making allowance for it being published in 1952, I enjoyed it but a
major emphasis was philosophising based on now discredited Freudian
analysis of masochistic man. The comedy in the form of puns or double
meanings was groaningly funny, the whole work was a comedy but sometimes
I caught myself taking it seriously perhaps because of the apparent
academic research undertaken to justify the unfolding philosophy in a
future far from now. (Many academic works are referenced in the
afterwords.) Events and co-incidents approached ridiculousness, with the
author not bothering to make action events believable but in the style
of a con-man so I was more interested in what was happening now rather
than in hesitating to consider the immediate past. The characters
relaying the story were individual and fascinating and they believed
what they were seeing so why shouldn't I?.
Despite cybernetic and brain surgery aspects it is not hard Science
Fiction but mainly Social Science Fiction, actually mainly comedy with
puzzling serious undercurrents of questionable psychiatry and sociology.
It was a good read and I learnt a lot about tapioca. Here are a couple
of teasers.
1.Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast
them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed,
rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting
fire. MATTHEW, 18 (Justification for Limbo.)
2.In April of 1951 a Peruvian surgeon named Dr Francisco Grana announced
before the Italian chapter of the International College of Surgeons (New
York Times, 30 April 1951) that 'he had examined 200 (American Indian)
skulls in tombs and ruins, and found evidence of excellent brain
surgery. The death rate from Indian surgery was about 30 per cent of all
brain operations, the same as the present rate,' he declared. One skull
which Dr Grana placed on display, from the fourth century, A.D., had two
perfect surgical perforations.. (Proof of fictitious event in Limbo.)

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