Bernard Wolfe is an American writer born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1915. He was educated at Yale University and then worked in the United States Merchant Marine during the 1930s. During World War II he was employed as a military correspondent by a number of science magazines, and then in 1946 he began to write fiction. Although he has written several plays (most for television), it is principally for his 1952 science fiction novel Limbo that he is best remembered. Penguin Books republished this work in a slightly abridged form in 1961, and claimed that it was "the first book of science-fiction (sic) to project the present-day concept of 'cybernetics' to its logical conclusion".[1] Taken from this viewpoint, Limbo is an early example of the New Wave movement in science fiction, and could even be argued to be a precocious predecessor of the cyberpunk literature of the 1980s.
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Novels
- Limbo (1952)
- In Deep
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References
- ^ Editor's jacket notes for Wolfe, B., "Limbo '90", Penguin: 1961.
