Jack Owen Jardine, The Disembodied Man (1954)
“ George was silent, thinking now in visual images instead of words. A brain in a glass jar, surrounded by fantastic machinery to perform the functions of the human body. And a woman's voice being piped in to him, to keep him from going mad. ”
Jack Owen Jardine, The Disembodied Man (1954)
“ Streetlights cast weird shadows across the white. George could hear the faint crunch-crunch his shoes made. Half-turning he looked at his tracks behind him."Damn white stuff!" He hunched his shoulders more, pulled his neck down into the folds of his collar. "Puts a pure clean blanket over the whole world—but all you have to do is walk on it and you can see the dirt underneath!"George climbed the steps to the elevated, bought a ticket to anywhere. Then he sat down and waited for a train. ”
Jack Owen Jardine, The Disembodied Man (1954)
“ Karen."Yes, George."You know more than I do what it's best for a patient to learn. Can you tell me all about the setup here?"Just what is it you want to know?"My body—I mean my new body. How do they build a human body?She laughed softly. "They don't," she said. "Medical science can do many things, George, but they can't really build a body."But you said—"They can grow one to order, almost. You know what cancer is, don't you?"Yes."Well, the doctors here use what they sometimes call 'controlled cancer'—to grow the human body. ”
