Plastic Man
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Jump to navigationJump to searchBrent, Jeremy. Plastic Man. UK: New English Library,[1] 1974. See Internet Speculative Fiction Database for translations.[2]
Our source here, Victor Grech, Clare Vassallo and Ivan Callus's Feature 101 essay “'Dread of the Masses': Infertility in Science Fiction Due to Off-Planet Population Control and as an Occupational Requirement," SFRA Review #320 (Spring 2017): pp. 4-9. Plastic Man as a novel "where a religious sect that worships a sentient computer advocates voluntary castration" (p. 6).[3] For computer rule and worship of an AI, cf. and contrast Vaal in the original (classic) Star Trek episode "The Apple" and the computer Landru in "The Return of the Archons."[4][5] The castration angle is unusual.
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