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Author Index P	Marge Piercy
Title Index B	Body of Glass


Year	1991
Publisher	Penguin (Middlemarsh Inc)
ISBN	014015602X

Synopsis	'This is a tale of my family from long ago when the world seemed to be breaking open ...' In 1600 in a Jewish ghetto in Prague a 'golem' is brought to life to protect the inhabitants from attack by mobs that rise periodically to ravage and murder. In the 21st century the story continues ... In North America, scientist Shira Shipman joins forces with Yod, the world's most sophisticated cyborg, to guard her freetown, Tikva - a fragile modern ghetto in a land of rigidly controlled environmental corporate domes - from a gang of deadly intruders ...

Review	'Body of Glass is much more than science fiction. It's a touching love story (several, actually) and a gripping adventure tale ... her best novel. St Louis Post Dispatch 'Outstanding ... I have not read a more disturbing or moving novel about artificial intelligence since Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ... it elevates Marge Piercy to the pantheon of haute science fiction alongside Doris Lessing and Ursula K Le Guin' Martin Mulligan, Financial Times

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	Credit: NASA
Twin Typhoons The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite snapped this image of Typhoons Mindulle, left, and Tingting spinning side by side in the Pacific Ocean on June 30, 2004. News reports blame Mindulle for several deaths in the Philippines and massive floods in Taiwan. When this picture was taken, Mindulle's maximum wind speed was 125 miles per hour.
NASA Image of the day archive

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