‘Man Plus’ – Frederick Pohl (Gollancz)
Every so often, everything kind of catches up with me and one of those things has to be shoved to one side, for later, so that I can get anything else done at all. I can tell that today is going to be one of those days so I'm doing myself a favour and recycling an old review, just to give myself a little room to breathe. I hope you don't mind ;o) I'm all about Fantasy and Horror these days so I thought it would make a change if today focused on some Science Fiction of the 'Masterwork kind'. A little digging came up with 'Man Plus'; a title that I think is well worth a read, even if it's unlikely, right now, that I'll go back for a re-read. The full review can be found over Here but all the important bits follow below... According to computer predictions, colonisation of Mars is mankind’s only hope of avoiding extinction; the Man Plus Programme is an exercise in biological engineering that will pave the way to humankind being able to live on the Red ...