Also published as: Body of Glass

Author: Marge Piercy Year: 1991 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science fiction, Award winners, Fantasy, Dystopia, Romance, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Barns&Noble eBooks.com Wikipedia LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780449220603 0449220605

In the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has changed for all time. Shira Shipman's marriage has broken up, and her young son has been taken from her by the corporation that runs her zone, so she has returned to Tikva, the Jewish free town where she grew up. There, she is welcomed by Malkah, the brilliant grandmother who raised her, and meets an extraordinary man who is not a man at all, but a unique cyborg implanted with intelligence, emotions--and the ability to kill.... Similar books: This Perfect Day by Ira Levin The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five by Doris Lessing The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson On a Beam of Light by Gene Brewer What Fire Cannot Burn by John Ridley Gnomon by Nick Harkaway The Disappearance by Philip Wylie The War in the Air by H. G. Wells The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 by Doris Lessing O-Zone by Paul Theroux Earthsong by Suzette Haden Elgin Transition by Iain M. Banks Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts An Exaltation of Larks by Robert Reed Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy Replay by Ken Grimwood Restoree by Anne McCaffrey Throne of Novoxos by Tyler Chase Out of Time by Monique Martin