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“If reality was a video game, the graphics are great, the plot is terrible and the spawn time is really long,” Musk said at the E3 Computer and Video Game convention in June 2019.

All three cyborgs are artists. All three cyborgs have claimed to achieve a different and new perception beyond what humans traditionally perceive. They did not do this in an attempt to be less than human or degrade the human race, but to push it forward. To them, transpecies is the next step in evolution.

Pat Cadigan is one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary genre, though she doesn’t describe herself that way. In her career she has published numerous novels and short stories, dealing with the interaction between the human mind and technology. She was the recipient of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best novel of the year for Synners (1991) and Fools (1992). She received the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for The Girl-Thing who Went Out for Sushi (2013).

We bounce around in a desperate, wild chase around the solar system, as the young protagonists try to contain an ever-worsening situation. The story draws from several influences – The Matrix meets Ready Player One, with elements from Lord of the Flies and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

It’s fairly central to the cyberpunk genre that there are a number of powerful mega-corporations governing the average citizen’s daily life, being resisted by only a very small number of people on the cutting edge of freedom and technology. We don’t have to look very hard to see that scenario developing in the world around us today.