It's an excellent book, in fact, for it manages to be both entertaining and thoughtful. Many novels on the market today can't say even that much. For that alone Bernard Wolfe deserves respect. The plot of Limbo revolves around the misadventures of one Dr. Martine, a neurosurgeon who keeps too many notebooks and cracks too many jokes for his own good. Wolfe sets his novel in the futuristic world of , and . · LIMBO is a post-WWIII novel of one I But, alas, this massive novel was a massive disappointment. LIMBO is a post-WWIII novel of one Idea (the post nuclear war desire for extreme pascifism/disarmament that manifests itself literally in a new society) that is repeated, philosophized upon, lectured about and punned endlessly/5(58). Not all of the conversations work, but it's a pleasure to watch Wolfe experiment with the concepts of unexpected consequences and unexpected messiahs. Unfortunately, Limbo is presently out-of-print, but I highly recommend paying whatever exorbitant price a used bookseller puts on it.
Unfortunately, Limbo is presently out-of-print, but I highly recommend paying whatever exorbitant price a used bookseller puts on it. By the way, for all of you (like myself)that enjoy Geek Love by Katherine Dunn, I would not be at all surprised if she had read Limbo at some point because Wolfe's mark is unmistakable in her novel. Bernard Wolfe. born New Haven, Connecticut: 28 August died Calabasas, California: 27 October works. Limbo (New York: Random House, ) [hb/Philip Grushkin] Limbo '90 (London: Secker and Warburg, ) [vt of the above: hb/] Limbo '90 (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, ) [cut vt of the above: pb/nonpictorial] nonfiction. Box Of Paperbacks Book Club: Limbo. by Bernard Wolfe () (Not long ago, A.V. Club editor Keith Phipps purchased a large box containing over 75 vintage science fiction, crime, and adventure.
About the author () Bernard Wolfe () 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. Its themes of cybernetics, artificial limbs and prostheses, computerised warfare, masochism and voluntary amputeeism would all be expanded upon in his first published novel, Limbo (). Because the novel was set in the then-distant future of , the original British edition is entitled Limbo ' Bernard Wolfe's 's classic Limbo offer a dystopian vision of life in following a devastating nuclear conflagration in the early 70's. Seen through the eye of a surgeon (Martine) who went AWOL during the war and has been hiding out on an uncharted island, the world has literally disarmed with males voluntarily submitting to having their limbs amputated as a commitment to peace.
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