02584cam a22003733u 4500 76114 UtSlPG 20260610134748.0 m cr n 260607r20251929utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PS Harris, Clare Winger, 1891-1968 The artificial man Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Produced from the Fall, 1929 issue of Science Wonder Quarterly magazine. Release date is 2025-05-19 Roger Frank and Sue Clark The artificial man by Clare Winger Harris is a science fiction short story written in the early 20th century. It examines the boundary between mind and body through radical prosthetics, asking whether identity survives when the flesh is replaced and warning how obsession can corrupt character. Promising student-athlete George Gregory loses a leg in a game and, shaken in spirit, begins to equate physical loss with a loss of soul. After a later car crash takes an arm and damages his organs, he adopts artificial limbs and an artificial kidney, grows embittered, and turns against his fiancée Rosalind and his former friend, surgeon David Bell, whom she eventually marries. Determined to prove identity can persist on a “minimum” of flesh, George submits to multiple operations until he becomes a mechanized being with detachable limbs and a chest control board powering his movements. He returns to murder David, but the young interne Lucius Stevens and police break in; realizing the machine-man’s weakness lies in the control panel and his right hand, they disable him. Dying, George repents, admitting it was his mind—not his injuries—that doomed him, and the tale closes as a caution against letting despair and pride overpower the will to heal. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Mt. Morris, IL: Stellar Publishing Company, 1929 Science fiction Short stories Cyborgs -- Fiction Paul, Frank R. (Frank Rudolph), 1884-1963 Produced from the Fall, 1929 issue of Science Wonder Quarterly magazine. https://archive.org/details/Science_Wonder_Quarterly_v01n01_1929-Fall https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76114 116839 116839