1972 Book: Cyborg
Continuing in my grand plan to read one book a month from every year of my life, I've moved on to 1972 and decided to give the book Cyborg by Martin Caidin a try.
For those who don't know, this is the book that was the basis for the TV movie and series "The Six-Million Dollar Man," a show I watched regularly as a child. It was a pretty interesting read, because there were a lot of a familiar names popping up, but the characterizations were very different from the show. The book was published as science fiction, which makes sense since it is dealing with futuristic technology, but it is really more in the category I would call Men's Adventure, with all the standard tropes of that genre thrown in (there is a subplot through the first half of the book dealing with Steve's doctors basically throwing pretty women at him in an attempt to help with his "recovery" and it made me roll my eyes, every time it got mentioned). This was my choice for a book published in 1972 and is definitely a book of its era. All that said, I did enjoy it and I'm sort of interested in seeing where some of the other books in the series went with the characters.
For those who don't know, this is the book that was the basis for the TV movie and series "The Six-Million Dollar Man," a show I watched regularly as a child. It was a pretty interesting read, because there were a lot of a familiar names popping up, but the characterizations were very different from the show. The book was published as science fiction, which makes sense since it is dealing with futuristic technology, but it is really more in the category I would call Men's Adventure, with all the standard tropes of that genre thrown in (there is a subplot through the first half of the book dealing with Steve's doctors basically throwing pretty women at him in an attempt to help with his "recovery" and it made me roll my eyes, every time it got mentioned). This was my choice for a book published in 1972 and is definitely a book of its era. All that said, I did enjoy it and I'm sort of interested in seeing where some of the other books in the series went with the characters.