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| Specialized Prosthetic Arm | ||
| A set of prosthetics that provide different functionality in place of missing arm. |
Mannie O'Kelly-Davis, the computer tech in the lunar prison, has a mechanical arm with a number of different attachments.
| ...I have something specialists don't have: my left arm.
You see, from elbow down I don't have one. So I have a dozen left arms, each specialized, plus one that feels and looks like flesh. With proper left arm (number-three) and stereo loupe spectacles I could make ultramicrominiature repairs that would save unhooking something and sending it Earthside to factory - for number-three has micromanipulators as fine as those used by neurosurgeons.
 (Prosthetic Arm from 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert Heinlein) |
| Technovelgy from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress,
by Robert Heinlein. Published by GP Putnam in 1966 Additional resources -
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Compare to the interchangeable hands from Philip K. Dick's 1965 novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.
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