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September 6, 2007

David: Beyond Human

The advent of artificial organs was a boon to that half of the population whose bodies could accept them. Rejection was binary; if someone rejected so much as an artificial skin graft, then lungs and livers were forever denied them.

It became briefly trendy to trade out boring natural organs for the sweetest hotrod bio-accessories. Lungs with superchargers, over-clocked pancreii, alternative spectrum eyes, anything the fashionably surgery-minded could imagine. Hips for the hip.

Then they passed laws requiring those who could accept artificial organs to donate their natural ones to those who couldn’t.

They took my heart in San Francisco.

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Comments

You have managed to convey a liberati vunterland while at the same time deriding its inherent totalitarian tendencies to commit atrocities for "the greater good". Good sci fi there, bro.

Posted by: Ted Bronson at September 6, 2007 6:18 PM · Permalink

Yeah. What Ted said!

Posted by: Jim at September 6, 2007 10:56 PM · Permalink