Nebula Award Best Novel Winner
Man Plus
by Frederik Pohl
Summary
Frederik Pohl follows Roger Torraway, an astronaut surgically and mechanically rebuilt into a cyborg so he can survive unprotected on the surface of Mars. As his human body is replaced piece by piece with machinery and bat like wings, Torraway wrestles with what remains of his identity and his marriage. The novel probes the psychological cost of transforming a person into a creature fit for another world, with a quiet twist about who truly drives the mission.
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Historical Context & Significance
Pohl won the Nebula Award for Best Novel for this book in 1976, one of several major honors across his long career in science fiction.