Wolfbane

Kornbluth, C. M., and Frederik Pohl. Wolfbane. New York: Ballantine, 1959. London: Gollancz, 1960. Shorter version published in two parts in Galaxy Oct., Nov. 1957.

Baroque variations on the theme of the relationship between persons (both human and nonhuman) and machines, with much use of the motif of mechanized environments. See for machine takeover and a group mind, mechanical "wombs," and an ultimately dangerous "womb-world" (our locution)—and for the possible mechanization and deification of persons and machines.