cyborgization n.

the conversion of a biological organism into a cyborg n.

  • 1979 B. Stableford Cyborgs in P. Nicholls Science Fiction Encyclopedia 151/2 page image Brian Stableford

    The functional cyborg made his first significant appearance in ‘Scanners Live in Vain’ (1950) by Cordwainer Smith. Here cyborgization is designed for space flight, and this particular theme dominates stories of both functional and adaptive cyborgs. [Ibid.] Cyborgization in connection with space travel involves cyborg-spaceship stories such as [etc.].

  • 1994 B. Stableford Les Fleurs du Mal in Asimov’s Science Fiction Oct. 125 page image Brian Stableford bibliography

    He was playing about with brainfeed equipment…. Not just memory boxes or neural stimulators, but mental cyborgization.

  • 2000 Books Received in Interzone July 65/1 (review) page image

    Some of us always liked this novel better than Pohl’s more highly-touted Gateway [1977]—mainly because of the potency of the central theme of cyborgization.

  • 2001 A. Reynolds Chasm City 48 Alastair Reynolds bibliography

    The Chimerics in general had taken cyborgisation to new extremes, blending themselves and their animals with machines.

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antedating 1979
Research History
Malcolm Farmer submitted a 2001 cite from Alastair Reynolds' "Chasm City".
Douglas Winston submitted a 2000 cite from Brian Stableford's "The Fountain of Youth".
Douglas Winston submitted a 1999 cite for "cyborgization" from Brian Stableford's "Architects of Emortality": Irene Grumman submitted a cite from an earlier version of this story, "Les Fleurs du Mal" in the October 1994 Asimov's Science Fiction.

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