to make into a cyborg
Something always distracted me. So when I heard of this place where they would cyborg me and get rid of all that, I jumped at the chance.
Man Plus is a heavily researched, painstakingly worked out hard science novel of the finest sort. It deals with the modification of a human being, through surgery, biological conditioning and cyborging techniques, to "become" a "Martian".
In functional terms, the Pilot is the human component of the Jump Circuit, the organic element of our star drive, who, cyborged to the Jump Drive by the Harmonizer, and activated by the Primer Circuit, navigates the ship through the space-time discontinuity of the Jump and out the other side the requisite number of light-years in the right direction.
Where did mechanical additions to human flesh become dominant? When was the Cyborg no longer human? Temptations intensified—‘Just this one little adjustment.’ And so easy to adjust until the potpourri-human became unquestioningly obedient. But…Clairby? Conditions of extremis said, ‘Cyborg him!’
You just do the best you can and our wizards will cyborg you into a superstar.
Richard Paul Russo’s ‘Listen to My Heartbeat’ involves a woman who has cyborged herself for spaceflight, and her boyfriend who couldn’t bring himself to do the same.
She made some joke about how, if that was what we were going to do, then she wouldn’t let the sun come up, and I said something about in that case I'd need to be cyborged so I wouldn’t wear out, and…you know the sort of talk.
However, when cyborged to an existing I, even one as damaged as Jerry Chapman, Aleph can create a virtual person.
Lesser characters may be the result of matings between humans and genetically engineered dogs and/or vurt entities; telepathic mutants; partially cyborged; any combination thereof.
Large fantasy movies in the 1990s are cyborged into an expensive suit of merchandising spin-offs; the film is merely the expendable fragment of live tissue that animates the whole apparatus and keeps it moving.
It is set forty years after Roger Torraway was unwillingly cyborged to enable him to explore Mars without needing external life support systems.
One of the humans cyborged to the FTL ships that colonized the planet long ago.
antedating 1976
John Varley, Bagatelle
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