Body Horror/Literature: Difference between revisions

* In the [[Cordwainer Smith]] story "A Planet Named Shayol", criminals are exiled to a prison planet inhabited by an alien parasite that keeps the prisoners alive but causes their bodies to grow extra parts - which the planet's single guard harvests when he visits the prisoners, and sends off-world to be used in organ transplants.

* It's found in spades in the works of [[Sheri S. Tepper]]. In ''Shadow's End'', in exchange for humans being permitted to live on the planet Dinadh, {{spoiler|when a woman experiences her first pregnancy she is then gang-raped by a native race called the Kachis. Several Kachis grow in her womb, eating the human foetus for sustenance. When the woman goes into labour, if there isn?t a special container to restrain the Kachis when they are born, they will proceed to attack the woman.}} In ''Sideshow'' a conjoined-twin brother/sister are attacked by the main villains and {{spoiler|are converted in dinka-jins, artificially enhanced bodies (imagine a human body converted in mechanical parts that can detach themselves from the main core and move about independently).}} In ''Gibbon's Decline and Fall'' the main villain {{spoiler|envisions a world where women exist in mindless suspended animation, the only part of their body utilised is the womb in order to create more men for his "perfect reality".}}

** And then there's the professor with Voldemort's face protruding from the back of his head!

** The Polyjuice Potion. (shudders)...

* In ''[[Deltora Quest]]'', Claw and a few characters from the [[Mordor|Shadowlands]]

** {{spoiler|The Diamond Guardian's vicious and scary pets are biologically attached to him.}}