History AnArmAndALeg / Literature

** [[spoiler:Lisa Duncan]]'s hand is later severed by Garlin too, to use her palm print [[BorrowedBiometricBypass for opening a secret chamber]].

* ''Literature/Area51'': Aspasia's Shadow is wounded by Mike Turcotte in ''Area 51: The Grail'', with one hand shot off. It regenerates once he partakes of the Grail though, albeit fairly slowly.

* ''Literature/TheCrimsonShadow'': Duke Morkney sentences a man to lose a hand (plus all of his property) for stealing.

* In ''Literature/DrFranklinsIsland'', Semi is [[InvoluntaryTransformation transformed]] into a fish creature. Part of the way through, her arms and legs go numb and unresponsive and she's unable to move them. After a couple of days she realizes that her mind has sort of 'dumped' her limbs, coming to regard them as unimportant and not really part of her, looking like dead wood. She stops being coherent for a good while after that and wakes up as something like a manta ray - whether her limbs fell off or were absorbed isn't shown, but she does have a pair of small, useless, vestigial flippers that become her feet when she transforms back.

* ''Literature/TheObsidianChronicles'': The {{sex slave}}s in the House of Carnal Society have their feet amputated to prevent them running away.

** Mad-Eye Moody lost one of his legs during the First Wizarding War.

* Bernard Wolfe's science-fiction novel ''Literature/{{Limbo}}'' is all about a society where self-amputation is encouraged by the culture, using ArtificialLimbs only during sport. It is seen as a moral equivalent to warfare, a [[LiteralMetaphor case of literal disarmament]].

* In the ''{{Literature/Lensmen}}'' series, Kimball Kinnison at one point gets captured and [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]]. Among the tortures is a deliberate infection that [[LifeOrLimbDecision forces the Patrol to amputate both arms and both legs to save his life]], once they get him back.

* Max Barry's ''Literature/MachineMan'' has Dr. Charles Neumann first lose one leg at the thigh, then the other. Both losses are treated realistically. The worst of it is when [[spoiler:he has to sever his own left arm at the shoulder as a LifeOrLimbDecision]].

* In the novels and animated version of ''LightNovel/FateZero'', [[spoiler: Sola-Ui]] gets [[spoiler: her]] right arm cut off by [[spoiler: Maiya]] to [[spoiler: remove the Command Spells that let her control Diarmuid!Lancer, which she got after subjecting Kayneth to {{Fingore}}.]]