Bernard Wolfe (1915-1985) was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He worked as a military correspondent for a number of science magazines during the Second World War, and began to write fiction in 1946. He became best known for his 1952 SF novel Limbo.
Limbo
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ISBN-13:
9781473212480
- Publisher: Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- Publication date: 12/15/2016
- Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
- Format: eBook
- File size: 3 MB
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In the aftermath of an atomic war, a new international movement of pacifism has arisen. Multitudes of young men have chosen to curb their aggressive instincts through voluntary amputation - disarmament in its most literal sense.
Those who have undergone this procedure are highly esteemed in the new society. But they have a problem - their prosthetics require a rare metal to function, and international tensions are rising over which countries get the right to mine it . . .
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To my mind, Bernard Wolfe remains one of the most remarkable original writers of the 20th century
Shrewd, and sometimes profound, comments on Western civilisation.Observer
Deep, strange, and wonderful, LIMBO represents a straight arrow pointing from the cautionary dystopias of Orwell and Huxley to the postwar absurdist mode of CATCH-22, Pynchon, and Philip K. Dick