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Man Plus - Frederik Pohl

Description: ISBN 1857989465 / Author: Frederik Pohl / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Roger Torraway undergoes biological engineering to allow him to survive on Mars - an experiment which may be the only to avoid the extinction of mankind.

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... which have traditionally been left out of sf anyway because of the difficulties in both description and narrative which they entail; and thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, because such restricted physical locations impose similarly restricted storytelling opportunities, and are consequently unlikely ever to become popular with novelists or short-story writers. If this first option simply turns out to be yet another example of altering the environment of Mars to suit the requirements of humanity (if admittedly on a su...more

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Man Plus - Frederik Pohl: Back to the Futurians! (1514 words)
by Brett Bligh - written on 27/11/00 (Very useful, 42 readings)
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The planet Mars, our closest planetary neighbour, has been a part of science fiction ever since the formation of the genre. At first it was simply assumed that Mars would have Earth-like conditions, and that those human beings who travelled there from the planet Earth would simply be able to step out of their travel capsules (of whatever kind were fashionable in fiction at the time) and go on about their adventurous business, interacting with alien life forms and forming colonies to their heart’s content in a fictional situation often used as an analogy of the colonisation of the New World of the Americas. Unfortunately, science stepped in, showing that the ...

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