The Men Inside

Malzberg, Barry N. "The Men Inside." In New Dimensions [1]. Robert Silverberg, ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971.

Literal "Diminution" of the men who serve as servants to technology and deal with "machinery and technique" as soldiers in a medical bureaucracy in the war against cancer. Uses the "cave" of the human body as a place of threatening and (in a surprise ending) joyous confinement: the cancer-ridden body is both literal setting and perhaps a variation on the machine / hive / organism metaphor of less problematic stories.

RDE, Title, 14Aug19