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Marge Piercy has written what may be her best novel yet, and this is high praise indee. er new book stretches a fictional tightrope between past and present, and is really two books in on. .

Marge Piercy has written what may be her best novel yet, and this is high praise indee. er new book stretches a fictional tightrope between past and present, and is really two books in one: a novel set in the future and a tale of Prague in 1600. The interwoven, parallel stories are about the power of words to create a reality, and more specifically about the ancient human desire to create intelligent life in our own for. t’s a touching love story and a gripping adventure tal. tories are important, and Piercy has written an important story. St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

From the imagination of Marge Piercy comes yet another stunning novel of morality and courage, a bold adventure . I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and it provided much food for thought

From the imagination of Marge Piercy comes yet another stunning novel of morality and courage, a bold adventure of women, men, and the world of tomorrow. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and it provided much food for thought. It was a creative mixture of a familiar by now dystopian environment and society, robotics and AI sentience, feminism (to some degree), Jewish thought, culture, and history of being persecuted. One person found this helpful.

He, She and It (published under the title Body of Glass outside the USA) is a cyberpunk novel by Marge Piercy published in 1991. It won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction novel in 1993. The novel examines gender roles, human identity and AI, political economy, environmentalism, love, and storytelling through a suspenseful plot, set in a post-apocalyptic America, of the romance between a human woman and the cyborg created to protect her community from corporate raiders.

It seems that Piercy was keen on fictionalizing ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’ – and she tried so hard to expand fictionally in over 500 pages what Haraway has condensed in nonfiction of 43 pages, that it becomes banal, commonplace when it had the possibility to turn into a powerful work ideologically and in terms of story-telling.

Marge Piercy is the author of seventeen novels including the classic Woman on the Edge of Time; nineteen volumes of poetry; four non-fiction books as well as her critically acclaimed memoir. Born in Detroit, educated at the University of Michigan, and the recipient of four honorary doctorates, she has been a key player in many of the major progressive political battles of our time, including the anti-Vietnam war and the women's movement, and more recently an active participant in the resistance to the war in Iraq.

Then he was rushed immediately to the hospital, a building complex even older than the lab building. The flogging had been far more than a formality. The flogging had been far more than a formality once-and he had experienced a buildup of toxins. He was unconscious and would remain isolated for ten days to two weeks. The next Shabbat, a message robot appeared at the gate, and Malkah and Shira went to fetch it. Message robots were small self-propelled wheeled vehicles; always a strident yellow, they resembled tiny cannons, barrels on treads.

He, She and It. 639 printed pages. This is Piercy's first full-fledged foray into science fiction, although Woman on the Edge of Time ( LJ 6/1/76) flirted with the genre. To read this book, upload an EPUB or FB2 file to Bookmate. In the 21st century the world has been ravaged by environmental disaster and war, with much of the populace living in corporate domes. Depressed over child custody problems with Josh, her ex-husband, Shira Shipman returns to her childhood home, one of the few free Jewish towns. There she falls in love with Yod, an illegal cyborg created to defend the town against attack.

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