Body Horror/Literature: Difference between revisions

Line 1:

* The Melding Plague in [[Alastair Reynolds]]' ''Revelation Space'' trilogy. It's totally harmless if you're a baseline human, but if you have any advanced technology ([[Nanotechnology]]) in you, it will infect those and cause them to rapidly fail and go out of control. In ''Chasm City'', a character mentions that if you have those implants in your head, your head will [[Your Head Asplode|explode]]. And it can infect advanced buildings and vehicles as well. In Chasm City, inhabitants of high-tech buildings were [[And I Must Scream|trapped in the walls, visibly screaming in terror]]. The survivors of the disaster don't know if it's possible to revive them.

** Also from the Revelation Space universe - Nightingale, a {{spoiler|[[AI Is a Crapshoot|quite insane medical AI]] that creates artistic statements against war using living human beings as its medium.}}

** Also from the Revelation Space universe - Nightingale, a {{spoiler|[[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|quite insane medical AI]] that creates artistic statements against war using living human beings as its medium.}}

** Reynolds' short story "Diamond Dogs" has the main character being slowly and ''voluntarily'' turned from a human into a cybernetic dog like creature. Unfortunately, the doctor who did this took himself apart so he wouldn't have to undo his "greatest work".

* In Jerome Bixby's "[[It's a Good Life]]", little Anthony (a [[Creepy Child]] of the first order) transforms obstreperous party guest Dan Hollis into... something-or-other unspeakably horrific, then wishes him "into the cornfield."

Line 97:

** First, we have the Embrace of Pain. In fact, the Yuuzhan Vong in general are big on pain. It's not uncommon to see a Vong with dozens of piercings, some of them connected to other piercings by a too-short chain.

** High-ranking Vong are fond of surgically removing parts of their own bodies and attaching parts from other creatures in their place. This, coupled with the ritual scarrings and piercings mentioned above, are particularly common among the priest and warrior castes (since all of this [[Body Horror]] is an act of worship towards the Vong gods, and those two castes are known for excessive displays of devotion); members of the [[Mad Scientist|shaper]] caste prefer to avoid this in favor of more subtle alterations to their internal organs.

** Pretty much the entire second half of ''[[Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor]]'' is a mix of [[Body Horror]] (including one case of [[And I Must Scream]]), [[Mind Rape]], and [[Go Mad ~~From~~ the Revelation]]. All of this with the occasional joke for juxtaposition's sake.

** Pretty much the entire second half of ''[[Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor]]'' is a mix of [[Body Horror]] (including one case of [[And I Must Scream]]), [[Mind Rape]], and [[Go Mad from the Revelation]]. All of this with the occasional joke for juxtaposition's sake.

** Sith "alchemy" can border on this at times. Luke's clones in ''[[Dark Empire]]'' are a lot taller and more muscular (and dumber) than him. Luke's soul is actually severed from his body in the [[Jedi Academy Trilogy]].

** And of course every Jedi occasionally has [[I'm Having Soul Pains|soul pains]].