(#157986) CONDITIONALLY HUMAN. Walter M. Miller, Jr.

CONDITIONALLY HUMAN. New York: Ballantine Books, [1962]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Books F626. Collects three short novels including the Hugo winner "The Darfsteller," in which "a computer-like machine that controls a theater of life-sized mannequins has displaced human actors." - John Clute, SFE (online), and "Conditionally Human," which depicts an authoritarian dystopia in which genetic engineering has created "beings on the border between animal and human." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 244. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-767. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 423-27. Spine lean, reading crease in spine, wear at upper fore-edge corner tip, a very good copy. (#157986).

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