One day she’ll accept the trade-off, losing a piece of her humanity. She’ll look back and see the wisdom in it. But not today. Today she just wants back what she’s lost. (Oh this better, updated last sentence: Today she screams.)
Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3mq5v2fdv4k2n
As much as I like cybernetics and media with it, I don’t want it. I have a few irrational fears, this is one. The other is finding a toilet in a dream and using it.
Every other entry in this series has been at peace with or loved the trade-off. But I wouldn’t and when I saw the reference image I knew exactly what I was going to paint with it. Someone tortured with the choice.
I also love Fredrik Backman, Bear Town is one of my all time favorites. The way he gets me to feel emotions with his words is something else. So the blurb above is my attempt in his style.
Thoughts? Also is the rain convincing?
I’ve wondered if the Ultras in the Revelation Space novel series were ever regretful of their modifications. They generally modified themselves to extremes to be better than any normal human, something of note in a universe where most humans have biological repairs to extend their lives hundreds of years as it is. I can’t remember if they tended to be all-white or if I’m just picturing their usual ships, the lighthuggers (near-lightspeed ships). I do remember they often have dreadlocks and grow a new lock for each reefer sleep (interstellar cryostasis), so that fuels my mental image that half of them look like The Twins of the Matrix
It’s a cool series. It sets you up with a ton of universe expo. It does not exactly pull it all together.
That sounds like a fun series. I’ll add it to my book list.
The twins were always creepy to me, which is a good thing in a book series!