Man Plus (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Frederik Pohl
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—superbeing
- Time of Work: The mid-twenty-first century
- Setting: Fictional Tonka, Oklahoma; various other parts of the United States; and Mars
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Twenty-first century, West, U.S., Oklahoma, Computers, Mars, Artificial intelligence, Astronauts
- Locales: United States, Oklahoma, Mars
The Plot
President Deshatine makes an important visit to Tonka, Oklahoma, the home of U.S. astronauts and the center of the Mars colonization program run by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Convinced he is under intense political pressure at home and abroad in an unstable mid-twenty-first century world, Deshatine orders the immediate acceleration of the program’s Man Plus project, which is developing a cyborg capable of living on Mars. Astronaut Roger Torraway and his wife, Dorrie, meet with the president, as Roger is fourth in line for conversion to a...
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