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title: "Man Plus (S.F. MASTERWORKS)"
brand: "frederik pohl"
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# Man Plus (S.F. MASTERWORKS)

**Brand:** frederik pohl
**Price:** R429
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- **What is this?** Man Plus (S.F. MASTERWORKS) by frederik pohl
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    What a twist! What a finish!
  

*by L***K on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 22 April 2012*

In the final chapter, which is about three or four pages long, there is a twist which sets this entire book in context and made me think about rereading it immediately with this in mind. This is an achievement for sure, there's no question that this book is a classic even if this piece of narrative brilliance wasnt included but it really does make it worth reading to the sentence and will no doubt make for interesting discussion with any friends who've read it too.The book itself is narrated in the third person, the characters central to the story are all introduced early on but the main protagonist does not begin in the role of the cyborg destined for Mars colonisation. I found this was a really great narrative trick although the pace and style of writing is good besides and the author does not have to rely upon tricks to keep a reader engaged with the story.I dont know a lot about cybernetics, space exploration or the hard science aspects of the novel but this content is convincing and not fantastic or too wonderous, there are just enough details ommitted to make the crazy surgerical feats involved in making the protagonist "man plus" to make it seem feasible. One aspect of reading novels like this which depict a world of tommorrow that we are closer to being in than the author was at the time of writing is discovering what innovations and developments they anticipated correctly and what they did not, for instance everyone does have the means to communicate via video calls but there are no mobile phones, these are phones like the home appliances, and folding screen covers provide privacy rather than minimising pictures as is possible with a laptop appliance in reality. While the author has anticipated flying cars, automated transport, some innovations in garage car storage they imagine a world in which everyone smokes, even in hospitals, and as I've said no one has mobile communications (car phones exist but are more like CB radios).There is more character development than world building but both are done really well, the world of the future anticipates things such as China's rise in prominance, there is a kind of internet functioning in that computers are networked but the characterisation is what I found the greatest. This is a very humane and humanising tale, the psychological aspects of it are great, one candidate perishes as a result of psychological pressure, or at least it is implied and a mainstay of the story is how Roger, the man plus subject, adapts to his transformation. It is a brilliant tale from this perspective and I would recommend it to anyone as a result, not just fans of science fiction.Its not unreasonable to mention Frankenstein perhaps but this isnt a tale of mad science and alienation in quite the same way, the pace and style of writing is pretty different too. Recommended.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    The 29th best science fiction novel.
  

*by O***S on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 28 March 2011*

The long and short of it is, Earth has become overpopulated, there's a constant threat of the outbreak of global warfare from the Asians, and America has decided to counter this by setting up a programme to eventually populate Mars as although it's a smaller planet than Earth, there is a greater land mass due to there being no oceans, therefore more room etcThe story is told from the perspective of someone who isn't revealed until the final chapter, but the plot is basically from the viewpoint of Roger Torraway, who is an astronaut working on the "Man Plus" project. Which is essentially to create a cyborg capable of existing on the harsh plains of Mars to help establish a colony there. Things go wrong early on with the project and Roger steps in to become the cyborg. You're told how his physical alterations actually affect his relationship with his wife and colleagues, and how it actually changes his own psyche and character.I enjoyed it, but it was a bit short at around 215 pages. I would have liked to have seen more about Mars, but I guess Pohl was more focussed on the character of Torraway than the actual mission itself. It did seem a little like a futuristic version of Frankenstein, to some extent. Man plays God and creates their own version of man who will be better, but it doesn't quite go exactly how they want it to due to their reliance on science.It's also a little dated. Written in the 70's, set in the future... everyone reads like a character from a throwback to the 60s rather than being futuristic. But overall, I'd recommend it if you're into Science Fiction novels.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A modern day Frankenstein
  

*by D***K on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 14 June 2005*

Man plus comes as the forebear to many novels about the colonisation of alien worlds. Although this book is far more political in its content than many others. It would have been very easy to immerse the story in the buildup of political tension occuring in the unimpossible future of Earth, just as it could have been very easy to allow Mars swallow the story entirely and in fact turn it into a fictional account of adapting to the environment of another world (try Ben Bova for such reading). However Man Plus looks at the personal and individual costs of beginning a colonisation.As a volunteer for the Man Plus programme Roger must be stripped of his humanity, the flesh that identifies him and even his very perceptions of reality as he is remade to be a new life form. Through this the novel allows glimpses of both Roger's inner torment as well political debates that the team that must manufacture him face.In some ways I wish that there had been more of Mars in this novel, as it is relegated to just two short chapters. Though the big point about this novel isn't about how man will live on Mars, it is about what he must face before he can live there. A very intelligent piece of science fiction.

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