{"product_id":"hybrid-child-paperback","title":"Hybrid Child - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMariko Ohara\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJodie Beck\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA classic of Japanese speculative fiction that blurs the line between consumption and creation when a cyborg assumes the form and spirit of a murdered child\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Until he escaped, he had been called \"Sample B #3,\" but he had never liked this name. That would surprise them--that he could feel one way or another about it. He was designed to reshape himself based on whatever life forms he ingested; he was not made to think, and certainly not to assume the shape of a repair technician whose cells he had sampled and then simply walk out of the secure compound.\u003cp\u003eArtificial Intelligence is all too real in this classic of Japanese science fiction by Mariko Ōhara. Jonah, a child murdered by her mother, has become the spirit of an AI-controlled house where the rogue cyborg once known as Sample B #3 takes refuge and, making a meal of the dead girl buried under the house, takes Jonah's form. On faraway Planet Caritas, an outpost of human civilization, the female AI system that governs society has become insane. Meanwhile, the threat of the Adiaptron Empire, the machine race that #3 was built to fight, remains. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the familiar strangeness of a fairy tale, Ōhara's novel traverses the mysterious distance between body and mind, between the mechanics of life and the ghost in the machine, between the infinitesimal and infinity. The child as mother, the mother as monster, the monster as hero: this shape-shifting story of nourishment, nurture, and parturition is a rare feminist work of speculative fiction and received the prestigious Seiun (Nebula) Award in 1991. \u003ci\u003eHybrid Child\u003c\/i\u003e is the first English translation of a major work of science fiction by a female Japanese author. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMariko Ōhara's many books include \u003ci\u003eSenso-wo Enjita Kamigamitachi\u003c\/i\u003e (Gods Prosecuting War), which won the 1994 Nihon SF Taisho Award for best science fiction work of the year; \u003ci\u003eTaimu Riipa\u003c\/i\u003e (Time Leaper, 1993); and \u003ci\u003eKyuuketsuki Efemera\u003c\/i\u003e (Ephemera the Vampire, 1993). She also writes for comics, radio, and video games, including the original script for Super Nintendo \u003ci\u003eGaia Gensoki\u003c\/i\u003e (Illusion of Gaia). \u003ci\u003eSaiko Saundo Mashin \u003c\/i\u003e(Psycho Sound Machine, 1998), based on one of her stories, won the Galaxy Award for best radio drama.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJodie Beck is an ESL\/EFL instructor and Japanese-English translator. Her translations of essays have been published in \u003ci\u003eMechademia\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.1 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 15, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67603227377913,"sku":"9781517904906","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/TiTnFXCsqA9781517904906.webp?v=1793854247","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/hybrid-child-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}