Limbo '90
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good/fair. Jacket: No dust jacket — cloth board in good condition, minor wear and fading to spine. Page Condition: Yellowed, with some tanning. Markings: No markings. Binding: Appears intact. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A landmark of American dystopian science fiction, Limbo '90 presents a darkly satirical vision of the future in which voluntary amputation becomes the ultimate anti-war statement. Set in a world recovering from a devastating nuclear conflict, Bernard Wolfe chronicles the journey of a brain surgeon who returns from a remote jungle exile to discover a civilization that has embraced pacifism through self-mutilation, replacing lost limbs with powerful prosthetics that paradoxically become new instruments of aggression. The novel argues, with savage wit and intellectual ferocity, that humanity's drive toward violence cannot be surgically removed from the body politic. Drawing on cybernetics, psychoanalysis, and Cold War anxiety, Wolfe constructs a richly layered narrative that is by turns grotesque, comic, and profoundly unsettling. Originally published in 1952, it remains one of the most ambitious and underappreciated works of twentieth-century speculative fiction.
Author: Bernard Wolfe
Format: Hardback
Published: 1953, Secker & Warburg, London
Genre: Science fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good/fair. Jacket: No dust jacket — cloth board in good condition, minor wear and fading to spine. Page Condition: Yellowed, with some tanning. Markings: No markings. Binding: Appears intact. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A landmark of American dystopian science fiction, Limbo '90 presents a darkly satirical vision of the future in which voluntary amputation becomes the ultimate anti-war statement. Set in a world recovering from a devastating nuclear conflict, Bernard Wolfe chronicles the journey of a brain surgeon who returns from a remote jungle exile to discover a civilization that has embraced pacifism through self-mutilation, replacing lost limbs with powerful prosthetics that paradoxically become new instruments of aggression. The novel argues, with savage wit and intellectual ferocity, that humanity's drive toward violence cannot be surgically removed from the body politic. Drawing on cybernetics, psychoanalysis, and Cold War anxiety, Wolfe constructs a richly layered narrative that is by turns grotesque, comic, and profoundly unsettling. Originally published in 1952, it remains one of the most ambitious and underappreciated works of twentieth-century speculative fiction.