Limbo (America Reads: Rediscovered Fiction and Nonfiction from Key Periods in American History)

For eighteen years, neurosurgeon Dr. Martine has been hiding out on a remote island, a fugitive from the massively destructive Third World War that broke out in 1972. When a group of men with remarkable robotic-enhanced limbs visits the island, Martine decides it is time to return to America. There he finds to his amazement that facetious comments from his lost wartime journals have been adopted by an international movement dedicated to the eradication of human aggression by voluntary amputation, literal disarmament. A cult classic, Limbo is by turns outrageous, funny, ambitious, and groundbreaking. AUTHOR: Bernard Wolfe was educated at Yale University. He worked in the United States Merchant Marine during the 1930s and was briefly the secretary and bodyguard to Leon Trotsky during the latter's exile in Mexico. During World War II he was employed as a military correspondent by a number of science magazines, and in 1946 he began to write fiction. Wolfe was the co-writer of musician Milton Mezzrow's autobiography Really The Blues. He wrote several novels, and plays, mostly for television REVIEWS: "A masterpiece" - David Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels