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MOLLY MILLIONS OF WILLIAM GIBSON’S CYBERPUNK NOVELS Neuromancer and Mona Lisa Overdrive has artificially enhanced vision, a modified nervous system, and electro-prosthetic razor blade fingertips. For her, body modification is an endless process of customizing and upgrading. As she warns another character in Neuromancer, one can’t let others “generation-gap you,” or surpass your own body modifications with the newest gadgets and technologies, lest you lose the competitive edge.1
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Pitts, V.L. (2003). Cyberpunk, Biomedicine, and the High-Tech Body. In: In the Flesh. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403979438_6
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