Call Me Joe by Poul Anderson

     I recently read the book "Call Me Joe" by Poul Anderson. It is about a being named Joe on Jupiter, who is truly the mind of Ed Anglesey, a man on a space station in orbit of the planet. Ed Anglesey is crippled and does not have control over anything but his head and arms, and so he uses Joe, an experimental life form that was created to live on Jupiter, who has full use of his body.
     Ed Anglesey used Joe to escape from reality. I can relate to this in that when I play video games, I fins my own space to do as I please outside of the real world, and I don't have to think about anything else when I'm doing it. This helps me cope with real world situations, because they don't weigh down on me as much as they would if I perpetually thought about them.
     Ed doesn't exactly evolve over time throughout the book, but the reader's idea of him does. This happens throughout the narrations of someone studying why one instrument used to put Ed's mind into Joe's keeps shorting out. In the beginning, I thought that it was because Ed was scared of something on Jupiter, because the person said so. But throughout the book the ideas of Ed and what he fears and does not fear change drastically, until they are almost exactly opposite of how they started.