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A Man Obsessed: A Positronic Book
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781515421634
Publisher: Positronic Publishing
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A driven man pushes past caution, reason, and ordinary human limits in a science fiction story of ambition, compulsion, and dangerous discovery. In A Man Obsessed, Alan E. Nourse brings his medical knowledge and sharp speculative imagination to the question of what happens when a single purpose takes command of a life. The result is classic magazine-era science fiction built around pressure, risk, and the uneasy border between genius and self-destruction.
Nourse often wrote about science as a human problem rather than a simple engine of wonder. His stories are concerned with bodies, minds, systems, institutions, and the moral costs of knowledge pursued without balance. Here, obsession becomes both motive force and warning sign, driving the story toward conflict between personal desire, scientific possibility, and the consequences that follow when judgment narrows too far.
For readers of vintage science fiction, medical SF, psychological science fiction, and compact idea-driven speculative stories, A Man Obsessed offers a strong example of Nourse's intelligent, practical, and human-centered approach to the genre. It belongs naturally in the Positronic line as a story where the future is shaped not only by technology, but by the flawed and urgent people who use it.
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