Limbo (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Bernard Wolfe
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—dystopia
- Time of Work: 1990
- Setting: The Inland Strip (Central North America)
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Dystopian fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Surgery or surgeons, Amputation, amputees, or prosthetics, 1990’s
- Locales: North America
The Plot
Dr. Martine, a neurosurgeon serving in emergency capacity during a computerized nuclear war, abandons his post at a field hospital and retreats to a remote island in the Indian Ocean. He spends the next twenty years as doctor to the native community and performs limited lobotomies on its psychopathic members in accordance with tribal ceremony. When a group of English-speaking strangers—all with bizarre artificial limbs— arrives, apparently searching for metal alloys, Martine’s curiosity prompts him to leave his native wife and son and return to the remnants of...
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