This body is crafted into the ideal image for the consumers who will be watching her on a feed. She is to be a remote, broadcasting her consciousness into a 15-year-old clone with receivers built into it, but otherwise completely devoid of sentience.
Instead, she is offered a job presented as the opportunity of a lifetime. Burke in the near future who makes a suicide attempt that is denied by a bureaucracy. In just 36 pages, it tells the story of 17-year-old P. When people discuss proto-cyberpunk fiction this short fiction piece should be a major component, especially when looking for non-masculine works within the-subgenre that don’t get put on must read lists as much as they ought to (I’m working on mine presently, by the way). Full on cyberspace found in Neuromancer isn’t present.
The only major thing missing is the injection of The New Frontier trope. Published in 1973, James Tiptree Jr may not have created cyberpunk, but pretty much wrote cyberpunk.
“It’s a lucky girl who can have all the fun she wants while doing good for others, isn’t it?”
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