(of a biological organism) made into a cyborg n.
‘It’s a cyborged human connected to a bomb, probably a uranium device,’ he said. ‘I've seen the design. It’s just like one that went off in Johannesburg three years ago. I didn’t know they were still making them.’
‘Don’t bother me,’ he said, loudly. ‘This is getting interesting. So if what you say is true,’ he went on to Hans, getting up and pacing intently back and forth, this time inside the line of barriers, ‘maybe I ought to look into this myself. You really like being cyborged better than being human?’
During that imperceptible insertion through the fabric of space-time, did I seek to experience the subjective eternity of the Great and Lonely through which my machineries had propelled my cyborged demon lover through feedback with the Circuit?
Think of it, your cyborged comeback at the age of sixty-three.
He even cunningly connects our remote cyborged descendants with ourselves by very subtly larding their somewhat mutated English with familiar and homey Southern speech patterns.
Well, the law says that only humans can buy land. Nothing artificial. If it’s a corporation, then it’s got to be a human officer that carries out the final transaction and accepts the deed. No software, no machines, no genens, no cultured biotes, nothing modified from other stock, just human. I mean, it can be cyborged or customized from here to Cass B, and we don’t care if it was born or micro-assembled, but it’s got to be human within the legal definition of the term.
And the girl was on stage, partnered in some kind of classic ballet piece—and if Tia had not known her left leg was cyborged, she would never have guessed it.
You doubtless know that it was ‘Scanners’ which introduced the Instrumentality of Mankind, although only as a shadowy background to the bizarre tale of the cyborged space pilots who are dead though they live, and would rather kill than live with a new discovery that has made their sacrifice and its attendant rituals obsolete.
A futuristic Wild Hunt conducted on mutant cyborged Allosauri.
They developed immortality via cyborged operatives; operatives who would walk through time at the normal rate but neither age nor die.
antedating 1976
John Varley, Bagatelle
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