Limbo

Wolfe, Bernard. Limbo (vt Limbo '90). New York: Random, 1952; New York: Ace, 1952.

See for the mechanization of people through prosthetics, the computer/military complex, and (if Warrick is correct) the necessity for laughter and ironic flexibility against various kinds of rigidities. Discussed by Warrick 149-50[[1]] and by G. K. Wolfe in his "Instrumentalities of the Body" essay in The Mechanical God: Machines in Science Fiction; see also the article by D. Samuelson — all listed under Literary Criticism.[[2]]