Marge Piercy

novel, slipstream, science fiction, cyberpunk, post-apocalyptic, cyborg, golem, artificial life, women, culture, community

Near future. Corporate America versus independent communities. Contains a re-telling of the Golem myth, drawing parallels with artificial intelligence and artificial life. Published in England as Body of Glass . Winner of the 1993 Arthur C.Clarke Award.

[See Body of Glass for story synopsis.]

Recommended.

*note: Could someone please send me the publishing details.

• Biograph -- Marge Piercy

• Books by Marge Piercy

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Body of Glass
(book review by Danny Yee... e-mail: danny@cs.su.oz.au)

Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Utopia: Marge Piercy
(author entry... maintained by Laura M.Quilter)

Marge Piercy
(author website... maintained by Jackie Rosenfeld... e-mail: alliegator@geocities.com)

Yiddish and Hebrew words in Marge Piercy's He, She, and It
(compiled by Ellen Spertus and Sylvia Spertus, with help from Eldad Ganin)

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