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✍ Scribed by Joseph McElroy


Publisher
Dzanc Books
Year
1976;2015
Tongue
English
Weight
141 KB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis


A brain orbiting the earth in a capsule, its human body gone, its onetime body. A novel written from the point of view of the brain told in the 3rd person close up -- too close for comfort. A brain that has been surgically divorced and lifted out of that body that had been terminally ill, we will learn -- an engineer who had been suffering from radiation and had agreed to be used in a solar experiment -- though he is perhaps of hardly more than passing concern in a tale whose growing is here and now under light which is alive in a capsule with green growing things . A solar energy experiment that changes unexpectedly.
A brain hooked up to instruments and nutrients in a space capsule, monitoring its physiological self, transmitting information along the Concentration Loop to scientists on Earth, whom it knows only by sound as the Good Voice, the Acrid Voice. Groping for words, memory, links, a grasp of what is happening to it, the brain, this stunned thing,...


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