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Saturday, August 30, 2008

Cyborgs in fiction

Cyborgs that originally appeared

in print:

  • The Tin Woodman from L. Frank Baum's Oz books (at least before he became entirely metal)
  • The protagonist of Frederick Pohl's Man Plus
  • Jonas the (star) sailor in Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun novels. His near light speed ship had been gone so long that on its return to Urth, there were no space port facilities any more, and it crashed. Other crew members patched him up from available parts.
  • Many if not most characters in Ghost in the Shell, specifically the Major, are cyborgs dependent on regular maintence; this manga became a graphic novel and later a feature-length anime
  • Cyborg of the Teen Titans comic book series is a superhero with massive implants and prothestics.

in film:

  • Robocop
  • The Terminator (A marginal case, since the only organic part of Terminators are their skin, which is only applied for special missions)
  • Darth Vader in Star Wars. Luke Skywalker also has a similarly designed right hand to replace the one he lost in battle.

on television:

other:

See also Robots in literature


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