Joe Haldeman's "More Than the Sum of His Parts" (short story, free): A man's transformation into a cyborg, then monster
A serious accident victim is saved by transforming him into a cyborg. He begins to like the new body parts. Then he starts enjoying his new found power too much, & quickly becomes a monster. Monster is easily disposed off, of course, by a techno-gimmick.
Caution: Bits of the story have explicit sex scenes, & describe male anatomy in some detail.
Fact sheet.
First published: Playboy, May 1985.Download full text from Lightspeed.
Rating: B.
4 comments:
About the same way I felt about it. It was obvious that he tailored it to the market :)
Nice! Having enjoyed his 'The Forever War' I shall download this one!
Adam:
Except that Playboy has published some of the coolest stories with no references to sex & such. My be the author thought such a thing would be appreciated?
Yea an Arthur C.Clarke story was published in Playboy magazine-I believe it was the first piece of SF seen there! It was later expanded into the novel 'The Hammer of God'.
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