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Quick query on behalf of my dad, before I post the last bit of Eight Crazy Nights. He writes:
I once (within the past decade) read a "science fiction" novel -- I guess that's the genre -- in which an important plot theme was this: A person needing money sold a small body part, and prospered, but also found the sale altruistically satisfying. So, part by part, he sold off major body parts, to the point where he was reduced to a torso and head carried around by his close friend. In the end, a recipient of one of the body parts invents a technique for perfectly replacing lost body parts, so the donor is at the book's end restored to a full complement of body parts, mostly "artificial." Now, here's the question: Have you a clue about how to identify the novel? I googled "science fiction plots donation body parts" and didn't get anything useful in the first four or five screens. Is there a listserv/blog to which I might submit an inquiry? Any other thoughts?
Can anyone help?
I once (within the past decade) read a "science fiction" novel -- I guess that's the genre -- in which an important plot theme was this: A person needing money sold a small body part, and prospered, but also found the sale altruistically satisfying. So, part by part, he sold off major body parts, to the point where he was reduced to a torso and head carried around by his close friend. In the end, a recipient of one of the body parts invents a technique for perfectly replacing lost body parts, so the donor is at the book's end restored to a full complement of body parts, mostly "artificial." Now, here's the question: Have you a clue about how to identify the novel? I googled "science fiction plots donation body parts" and didn't get anything useful in the first four or five screens. Is there a listserv/blog to which I might submit an inquiry? Any other thoughts?
Can anyone help?