In article <1083cv1$3afj$[email protected]>,
Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:

On 8/19/2025 8:09 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 8/19/2025 10:17 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

Five SF Works About Repurposing Organs and Other Body Parts

Sometimes organ donation is voluntary. Sometimes, people (or aliens)
just take what they want.

https://reactormag.com/five-sf-works-about-repurposing-organs-and-
other-body-parts/

Inevitable 'Why didn't you include....' post:

Frankenstein
The Ship Who Sang
Murderbot Diaries

The Jigsaw Man
The Organleggers
...Niven did a lot of these...

The only one of yours I've read is IWFNE.

pt

Excellent list !

And "Franks" in the Monster Hunter International series by Larry Correia.

https://www.amazon.com/Monster-Hunter-International-Larry-Correia/dp/1668072491

There is something else on the tip of my brain. Maybe by Weber or Ringo.

Lynn

WEDNESDAY. He had no new thoughts.

THURSDAY: Professor Troubridge fell into step beside Mention,
as the latter started home.

"Norman," he said, "about your reference the other day to
Futurian Science Laboratories: If they've approached you,
don't hesitate. They can do what they claim."

For a moment, the words sounded as if they had been created
at random by a mechanical word machine. But there was meaning
finally. Meaning so important that Mention fought doggedly
to prevent himself from blathering questions that would
reveal his ignorance. He gulped, paused disastrously, and
then was saved, as Troubridge went on:

"Three years ago, my physician, Dr. Hoxwell, told me that
my heart wouldn't last six months. I went to the Mayo Clinic.
They confirmed the diagnosis. It was a month after that,
when I was already despairing, that I was approached by the
Futurian people, and informed that I could be furnished
with a new heart for ten thousand dollars. They showed me
a heart in a glass case, beating. It was a living heart,
Norman, and they said it made no difference what organ I
needed at any time, they could supply it, provided I had
the money."

Mention said: "I thought organic transplantations were
impossible because--"

He stopped. Realization came that that wasn't really the
thought in his mind. There was something else, a picture,
a question that roared through his brain with the clamor
of a tidal wave. As from a great distance, he heard Troubridge
say:

"They can do it because they've discovered a new principle
in organic electricity."

The thought that had come to Mention dominated the whole
universe of his mind now. In a dead voice, he uttered the
terrible words:

"Where do they get their live replacement organs?"

"Eh!" said Troubridge. His eyes widened. A stunned expression
crept over his face as he whispered: "I never thought of
that."

By the time Mention reached the empty apartment, he didn't
want to think of it either.

There came purpose.

He paced the living room of the apartment that night in a
fury at himself for having waited so long. And yet the
problem was still: what should he do, what could he do that
would be effective?

Go to the police?

He felt immensely reluctant. Because there was still a
chance. They wouldn't have told him NOT to go to the
authorities merely to keep him quiet for a week--if at the
end of that time he went anyway.

He could mail a letter to his bank lo put into his safety
deposit box, which would be opened if something happened
to him . . . Yes, he would do that.

He wrote the letter, then sat at his desk striving to think.
After a long period during which nothing would come, he
began heavily to write down a list of possibilities, item
by item:

Virginia accidentally runs across Futurian Labs. She
disappears.

I am warned by a man who walks through walls. I discover
that:

(1) Dr. Dorial Cranston, founder of Futurian, is a fanatic
Pacifist as well as a neurologist.

(2) That Futurian sells human organs on a mass scale to
rich men. (This is probably their purely commercial enterprise,
their source of income.)

(3) The ability to walk through walls is obviously a means
of power, and they are not sharing that with anyone. Yet
they seem unworried by the fact that I know about it.

(4) Cridley, science editor of the Herald, told Virginia
that several attempts to investigate Futurian were stifled
in embryo stage, proof that they have influence in high
places.

(5) There is absolutely no reason why they should treat
Virginia any differently than they do the other--sources--of
their live organs.

Mention wrote the last sentence grimly, then stared down
at the list, dissatisfied. It seemed to offer no lead that
he could follow with even the vaguest possibility that he
would find Virginia.
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