The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book (1983)
The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book is a 1983 american science fiction book written by Isaac Asimov and George R. R. Martin.
Fifteen stories take the subject of fat and thin and run it through the science fiction imagination, from wry satire to genuine horror. Isaac Asimov opens with an essay simply titled 'Fat!'. Orson Scott Card contributes 'Fat Farm', Stephen King closes with the unnerving 'Quitters, Inc.', and H. G. Wells, Robert Silverberg, Frederik Pohl, Jack Vance and Kit Reed fill the space between. Some imagine future cures and diet machines, others the darker bargains people strike with their own bodies. Edited with Martin H. Greenberg, the collection treats a familiar human worry as fertile ground for speculation.
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What is The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book about?
Fifteen stories take the subject of fat and thin and run it through the science fiction imagination, from wry satire to genuine horror. Isaac Asimov opens with an essay simply titled 'Fat!'. Orson Scott Card contributes 'Fat Farm', Stephen King closes with the unnerving 'Quitters, Inc.', and H. G. Wells, Robert Silverberg, Frederik Pohl, Jack Vance and Kit Reed fill the space between. Some imagine future cures and diet machines, others the darker bargains people strike with their own bodies. Edited with Martin H. Greenberg, the collection treats a familiar human worry as fertile ground for speculation.
When was The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book published?
The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book was published in 1983.
Who made The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book?
The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book was written by Isaac Asimov, George R. R. Martin and Martin H. Greenberg.
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Readers who like a sharp speculative twist per sitting should watch The Twilight Zone, which shares this collection's taste for an ordinary anxiety pushed to its logical, uneasy end. Black Mirror updates the same trick for the age of the diet app and the body sensor, trading the ray gun for the wearable.
Speculative fiction that turns the body into the site of control
This anthology imagines diet cures and body machines as satire and horror, and these push the idea further. Black Mirror and The Twilight Zone deliver one unsettling premise per episode, much like this collection delivers one per story. The Handmaid's Tale turns a woman's body into state property, Repo! The Genetic Opera lets organs be repossessed like a car, and The Marrow Thieves harvests bodies for what they can dream.