The Girl who was plugged in

Résumé : If James Tiptree Jr.’s The Girl Who Was Plugged In (1973) were published today nobody would think it dated. Ahead of its time, it was cyberpunk before the movement had a name and post-human before it too became a craze. Telling of an abused, heavily augmented girl taken advantage of by the system, the novella remains fully human in scope, the motifs of sci-fi used to spectacular yet poignant effect in this tale of self-perception in a media-ensconced world.