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Plasticity
If you could replace your frail human body with a shiny new robot body, would you? Would you have to have an incurable disease, or a physical disability? Would you have to be damaged? Broken? Or would you do it just because you could? How much of your humanity do you think would survive within you?
Arakawa Portland is a post-human plastic—her flesh body abandoned nearly a decade ago—who has been enlisted to counsel a young woman who is considering making the transition. At first, counseling the girl only serves to reinforce Portland's belief that she has moved beyond so much of the human condition. But, when the girl is abducted, Portland is sent on a search for answers and vengeance. A search that will raise further questions at each dark, weird turn, and shake Portland's faith in her own mind and body.
Arakawa Portland is a post-human plastic—her flesh body abandoned nearly a decade ago—who has been enlisted to counsel a young woman who is considering making the transition. At first, counseling the girl only serves to reinforce Portland's belief that she has moved beyond so much of the human condition. But, when the girl is abducted, Portland is sent on a search for answers and vengeance. A search that will raise further questions at each dark, weird turn, and shake Portland's faith in her own mind and body.
- GenresScience Fiction
242 pages, Paperback
Published July 7, 2017
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A.D. Shinn
3 books12 followersA.D. Shinn is an indie author of sci-fi and horror, with the science fiction novel Plasticity released in early 2017, and the horror novella The Witch and the Dark Forest released in October 2017, as well as several short stories and flash fiction, some of which can be found on his website at plasticblankwarehouse.com.
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November 3, 2017
"If you could replace your frail human body with a shiny new robot body,
would you?"
Oh, I really liked this idea, exciting and unusual. The action takes place in the far future where almost everyone can decide and afford to exchange his human body for a new robot body for some reason. But what if something goes wrong?
There are a lot of characters in the story but the author pays enough attention to everyone and the thread of action isn't lost. The plot has some good twists so you can't put the book down till the end.
Worth reading!
would you?"
Oh, I really liked this idea, exciting and unusual. The action takes place in the far future where almost everyone can decide and afford to exchange his human body for a new robot body for some reason. But what if something goes wrong?
There are a lot of characters in the story but the author pays enough attention to everyone and the thread of action isn't lost. The plot has some good twists so you can't put the book down till the end.
Worth reading!
October 29, 2017
Excellent futuristic novel! The author raises a good question. What would it take to make you decide to exchange your frail human body for a shiny new robot body? As a person with a life threatening disease, I absolutely would not. My humanity is everything to me. However, would I replace parts of myself? For example, my kidney? Absolutely! Enjoyed!
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