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| − | + | '''Ōhara, Mariko. (Or Mariko Ōhara). ''Hybrid Child.''''' 1990. Translated Jodie Beck. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 2018.[https://www.amazon.com/Hybrid-Child-Novel-Parallel-Futures/dp/1517904900][http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?662237][http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2358210] | |
| − | + | Mentioned in Rachel Cordasco's column "The SF in Translation Universe," ''SFRA Review'' 325 (Summer 2018): 23: "feminist Japanese sf in which a cyborg assumes the 'form and spirit' of a girl murdered by her mother."[http://www.sfra.org/resources/Documents/SFRA%20Review%20325.pdf] This "triptych of novellas" is discussed usefully and insightfully by Lauren Crawford in ''SFRA Review'' #327 (Winter 2019): pp. 73-74.[http://sfra.org/resources/Documents/SFRA%20Review%20327.pdf] | |
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| − | Mentioned in Rachel Cordasco's column "The SF in Translation Universe," ''SFRA Review'' 325 (Summer 2018): 23: "feminist Japanese sf in which a cyborg assumes the 'form and spirit' of a girl murdered by her mother." | + | Equal parts Bildungsroman, biopunk, military SF, and feminist SF, ''Hybrid Child'' takes place on the precipice of apocalypse. Humans are warring with a machine race [...] that threatens to tear down civilization; in an eleventh-hour effort, they place all hope on fourteen military-built, immortal cyborgs, each capable of shapeshifting through the consumption of genetic material. But one cyborg, Sample B #3, unable to reconcile his existence with his bellicose purpose, escapes. Taking on various forms, Sample B #3 finds refuge at a rural house; it is there that he meets Jonah, a household AI modeled on — and haunted by — a murdered child. Starved to death by her mother, Jonah’s body is buried under the house, perfectly preserved in an impenetrable coffin. As the military closes in on Sample B #3’s location, Jonah the AI invites Sample B #3 to eat her corpse to avoid detection and destruction, and the two beings become inextricably linked, or hybridized. Through Sample B #3, Jonah is resurrected; and through Jonah, Sample B #3 experiences the bounds and boundlessness of humanity. |
| + | (Crawford, p. 73) | ||
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Perhaps to be compared and contrasted with, but not confused with, ''[[Hybrid Child (manga)|Hybrid Child]]'' manga and spinoff dramatization. | Perhaps to be compared and contrasted with, but not confused with, ''[[Hybrid Child (manga)|Hybrid Child]]'' manga and spinoff dramatization. | ||
| − | RDE, finishing, 23Nov20 | + | RDE, finishing, 23Nov20, 3Dec20; 17Oct21 |
[[Category: Fiction]] | [[Category: Fiction]] | ||
Latest revision as of 22:23, 17 October 2021
Ōhara, Mariko. (Or Mariko Ōhara). Hybrid Child. 1990. Translated Jodie Beck. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 2018.[1][2][3]
Mentioned in Rachel Cordasco's column "The SF in Translation Universe," SFRA Review 325 (Summer 2018): 23: "feminist Japanese sf in which a cyborg assumes the 'form and spirit' of a girl murdered by her mother."[4] This "triptych of novellas" is discussed usefully and insightfully by Lauren Crawford in SFRA Review #327 (Winter 2019): pp. 73-74.[5]
Equal parts Bildungsroman, biopunk, military SF, and feminist SF, Hybrid Child takes place on the precipice of apocalypse. Humans are warring with a machine race [...] that threatens to tear down civilization; in an eleventh-hour effort, they place all hope on fourteen military-built, immortal cyborgs, each capable of shapeshifting through the consumption of genetic material. But one cyborg, Sample B #3, unable to reconcile his existence with his bellicose purpose, escapes. Taking on various forms, Sample B #3 finds refuge at a rural house; it is there that he meets Jonah, a household AI modeled on — and haunted by — a murdered child. Starved to death by her mother, Jonah’s body is buried under the house, perfectly preserved in an impenetrable coffin. As the military closes in on Sample B #3’s location, Jonah the AI invites Sample B #3 to eat her corpse to avoid detection and destruction, and the two beings become inextricably linked, or hybridized. Through Sample B #3, Jonah is resurrected; and through Jonah, Sample B #3 experiences the bounds and boundlessness of humanity. (Crawford, p. 73)
Perhaps to be compared and contrasted with, but not confused with, Hybrid Child manga and spinoff dramatization.
RDE, finishing, 23Nov20, 3Dec20; 17Oct21
