title: The Cyborg Handbook
author: Donna J. Haraway
description: One of society's oldest dreams has been to create a living machine. To most of us, cyborgs are Terminator or Robocop types who combine artificial robotic strength and firepower with human intelligence/cunning. Yet Gray, a 1994-95 NASA Fellow in Aerospace History, has collected writings that explore real cyborgs (or cybernetic organisms) as any entities that mix the mechanical with the organic. Thus, humans with prostheses or implanted pacemakers qualify as cyborgs. This fascinating assemblage of essays, short stories, and research findings covers the role of this incredible modern technology through its varied uses in medicine, space research, and military applications. Articles are written by experts in the field of cybernetics, including Donna Haraway. This unique work combines scientific fact and science fiction. The bibliography and filmography are invaluable additions. For large public and academic libraries.?Joe Accardi, Northeastern Illinois Univ. Lib., Chicago<br />Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  **Touching Ice**
  
  [ _Laurann Dohner_](http://www.jasminejade.com/m-589-laurann-dohner.aspx)
  
  _Book 4 in the Cyborg Seduction series._
  
  What can go wrong overseeing a bunch of android sex bots on an automated
  whorehouse in deep space? Great job, if Megan doesn’t die of boredom. Then she
  catches sight of the sexiest male she’s ever seen. On her grainy security
  monitor, she watches all his sexual exploits with the bots, and fantasizes.
  But that’s all she _can_ do because he’s a cyborg. Then fate steps in.
  
  There’s a crash and Megan must escape or die. The cyborgs are rescuing the sex
  bots—taking them onboard their ship. She knows cyborgs hate humans. They’ll
  kill her if she asks for help so she devises an insane plan—pretend to be the
  most realistic sex bot ever made.
  
  His name is Ice, and Megan is now his personal sex bot. He will satisfy every
  sexual fantasy she’s ever had—and as many more as she can dream up. She just
  has to figure out how to keep her b