Jigsaw Man, The

Publication date: 
1967-08
Publication type: 
Short Story
Published: 
Dangerous Visions (anthology), Edited by Harlan Ellison; Doubleday (later editions from Berkley, Sphere and Signet)
Opus No.: 
22
Setting: 
Known Space
I.U.C.: 
K.S. 06 (2099)
Characters: 
Warren Lewis Knowles
Summary: 

This early Niven story was the first of many to delve deeply into the legal and ethical implications of organ-transplant technology. It introduces Known Space's organ banks and the breed of criminals known as "organleggers."

Notes: 

First organ transplant story, paving the way for the Gil Hamilton stories.

Reprints: 

The Road to Science Fiction #3, edited by James Gunn; French anthology, Dangereuses Visions, J'ai Lu, 1976, paper; The Survival of Freedom, ed. Jerry E. Pournelle & John F. Carr, Fawcett Crest 1981; Graphic version, Deepest Dimension Terror Anthology. Limited-edition comic books from Revolutionary Comics, August, 1993, #2; Anthology, Survival of Freedom, ed. Jerry Pournelle; The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. Garyn G. Roberts, Prentice-Hall 2001; All the Myriad Ways; Tales of Known Space; Three Books of Known Space; Best of Larry Niven, The