The Girl Who Was Plugged In

Tiptree, James, Jr. (pseud. of Alice Sheldon). "The Girl Who Was Plugged In." In New Dimensions 3. Robert Silverberg, ed. New York: NAL, 1973. Rpt. The Hugo Winners. Vol. III. Isaac Asimov, ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977. Reprinted Cybersex anthology; for other reprints, plus translations and awards, see Internet Speculative Fiction Database, as of January 2023, here.[1]

An ugly woman accepts an offer to be made into the computer control of a beautiful female "waldo." Cf. T. Lee's Electric Forest, cited this Category.

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Reprinted also in Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture, an instructive place to read it (pp. 546-77, last item before the Index).

RDE, initial; finishing 24Jan23