Millennial Review XVII: The Whole Man by John Brunner (1964)
The Whole Man
By John Brunner
30 Jan, 2000
Millennial Reviews
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The Whole Man
John Brunner
Del Rey, 1964 [fix-up from 1958, 1959]
188 pages
Synopsis: During a period of civil unrest, Gerald Howson is born. He is terribly deformed and a bleeder, something his mother knew was possible, but she was more interested in using the pregnancy to blackmail Howson’s father into marrying her. The father is dead, and she is stuck with Gerald. Miss Howson briefly meets a UN Pacification Agency telepathist, Ilse Kronstadt, who is horrified at the mother’s priorities.