He, She and It (published under the title Body of Glass outside the USA) is an award-winning feminist science fiction/cyberpunk novel by Marge Piercy, published in 1991. Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction in the United Kingdom, the novel examines gender roles, human identity and AI, political economy, environmentalism, and much more through a suspenseful story, set in a post-apocalyptic America, of the romance between a...
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He, She and It (published under the title Body of Glass outside the USA) is an award-winning feminist science fiction/cyberpunk novel by Marge Piercy, published in 1991. Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction in the United Kingdom, the novel examines gender roles, human identity and AI, political economy, environmentalism, and much more through a suspenseful story, set in a post-apocalyptic America, of the romance between a human woman and the cyborg created to protect her community from corporate raiders.
The main story of He, She and It is situated in North America in the near future of the year 2059. At that time, the economic and political power is held by few multis -- huge multi-national enterprises with their own social hierarchy that have produced an affluent society. The main part of the population, however, lives in the glop outside of the multis' enclaves within an environment that has mainly been destroyed. Here, the life is dominated by poverty,...
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