Gray Matters - William Hjortsberg - 1972 Pocket Books Paperback

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Blurb: “THE FIRST CEREBROMORPH.

is Skeets, a twelve-year-old boy whose body was demolished in the worst plane crash of the 1970s. Miraculously, his brain lived, lifted from his body and preserved to think, feel, remember.

Vera Mitlovic is an ex-movie star kept young by hundreds of organ transplants.

When her mind grew senile, at age 100, her brain was removed from

her body and her senility arrested through the power of Center Control.

Astronaut Philip Quarrels was the first to become a voluntary cerebromorph when the government needed him for a dangerous mission.

Obu ltubi is an artist, the last of the African Renaissance movement. By the time he was born - the twenty-second century -

Center Control made everyone a cerebromorph. But Obu was determined to fight — and to escape the computer tyranny that had controlled him.

"Dramatic, astonishing ... as arresting as those final scenes of Kubrick's '2001' "- The New York Times”