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Three-issue lot: April, May, and June 1976. Mercury Press, Inc. Digest format; cover price $1.00 per issue. Edited by Edward L. Ferman; Isaac Asimov, science editor. Complete three-part magazine serialization of Frederik Pohl's Man Plus (parts 1, 2, and 3). Table-of-contents pages in listing photos confirm Vol. 50, Nos. 4–6 (Whole Nos. 299–301). Man Plus is one of Frederik Pohl's major novels. It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel (1976 publication year) and was nominated for the Hugo and Campbell Awards. First published in this F&SF serial before the 1976 hardcover. The story follows Roger Torraway, transformed into a cyborg to survive Mars and enable human colonization, against a backdrop of Cold War tension and environmental crisis on Earth — a landmark 1970s novel of transhumanism, psychological transformation, and morally ambiguous hard SF. Included issues and highlights: April 1976 (Vol. 50, No. 4): Man Plus part 1 of 3; novelet "The Hospice" by Robert Aickman; short fiction by Sonya Dorman, Jeanne Parker, Ron Goulart, and Barry N. Malzberg; Isaac Asimov science column "All Gall." Cover art by Bonnie Dalzell and Rick Sternbach. May 1976 (Vol. 50, No. 5): Man Plus part 2 of 3; novelet "Paradise Beach" by Richard Cowper; short fiction by Paul Darcy Boles, Avram Davidson, Harvey Jacobs, Bonnie Dalzell, and J. Michael Reaves; Isaac Asimov science column "It's a Wonderful Town!" June 1976 (Vol. 50, No. 6): Man Plus part 3 of 3; novelet "Chlorophyll" by Stephen Tall; short fiction by Robert F. Young, Alan Dean Foster, C. L. Grant, and L. Sprague de Camp; Isaac Asimov science column "Surprise! Surprise!" Cover art by David Hardy (June issue). Condition: Good vintage digest lot. Mailing labels on all three back covers. Typical page-edge tanning throughout. Light cover and spine edge wear, most noticeable on the April issue. Interior pages readable; bindings intact on all three. Three magazines total, ships as one lot.