The Girl who was plugged in

If James Tiptree Jr.’s The Girl Who Was Plugged In (1973) were published today nobody would think it dated. Ahead of its time, it was cyberpunk before the movement had a name and post-human before it too became a craze. Telling of an abused, heavily augmented girl taken advantage of by the system, the novella remains fully human in scope, the motifs of sci-fi used to spectacular yet poignant effect in this tale of self-perception in a media-ensconced world.