Camouflage

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Kuttner, Henry (also: "Lewis Padgett," pseudonym for Kuttner and C. L. Moore).[1] "Camouflage." Astounding September 1945. Collected Ahead of Time. New York: Ballantine 1953. Frequently reprinted, including Best SF 6. London: Faber & Faber, 1966 And Human-Machines: An Anthology of Stories About Cyborgs, q.v.; see Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase for other reprints.[2]

"[...] features a cyborg implanted into a starship [...]."[3] Summarized on "GoodReads," "Bart Quentin, man without a body, a living brain integrated into the electronic circuits of a hijacked space freighter."[4] Cf. and contrast Anne McCaffrey's Helva stories, J. McElroy's Plus, and K. O'Donnell's Mayflies.


Discussed in "The Cyborg (R)Evolution in Science Fiction" in The Mechanical God: Machines in Science Fiction, q.v.

RDE, completing, 25July19, 4Aug20