The Artificial Man

Note: The print format version of this story is the leading title in a small anthology of Clare Winger Harris's works. The audiobook is not an anthology and is only "The Artificial Man". If Mindy finds a stand-alone print of this story, I will update this page. However, for now, the anthology is the only source I have found for print.

In The Artificial Man (1929), pioneering science fiction author Clare Winger Harris explores the haunting boundary between flesh and machine, mind and soul.

When star athlete George Gregory loses his leg in an accident, despair consumes him. As his body continues to fail through subsequent tragedies, he turns to science—replacing his limbs and organs with mechanical ones, determined to prove that human identity can survive without the body. But as his transformation deepens, George’s obsession with artificial perfection drives him into isolation, madness, and murder.