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He, She and It
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<p><i>He, She, and It</i> (retitled <i>Body of Glass</i> in the United Kingdom) is a 1991 <a href="/facts/Cyberpunk/3MIjfHNL">cyberpunk</a> novel by American writer <a href="/facts/Marge_Piercy/G2GpQa7j">Marge Piercy</a>. It won the <a href="/facts/Arthur_C._Clarke_Award/gQF7ufmu">Arthur C. Clarke Award</a> for Best <a href="/facts/Science_fiction/d9hE2Lwt">Science Fiction</a> <a href="/facts/Novel/3Q8sXXLU">Novel</a> in 1993. The novel, set in an <a href="/facts/Post-apocalyptic/6a9bYkqe">post-apocalyptic</a> America, follows a romance between a human woman and a <a href="/facts/Cyborg/Ih2KzUEw">cyborg</a> created to protect her community from <a href="/facts/Corporate_raid/7zWyNY2m">corporate raiders</a>. The novel also interweaves a secondary narrative of the creation of a <a href="/facts/Golem/qz13hQDM">golem</a> in 17th century <a href="/facts/Prague/txpRNTUE">Prague</a>. Like Piercy's earlier novel <i><a href="/facts/Woman_on_the_Edge_of_Time/P1CCSbJJ">Woman on the Edge of Time</a></i> (1976), <i>He, She, and It</i> also examines themes such as <a href="/facts/Gender_role/pt2sQYD2">gender roles</a>, <a href="/facts/Political_economy/P753k3It">political economy</a>, and <a href="/facts/Environmentalism/hhFsXTLE">environmentalism</a>. In the mid-twenty-first century, Norika (formerly North America) is a toxic wasteland. Dominated by powerful corporations known as "multis", the region includes environmental domes, independent "free towns", and the chaotic "Glop", where most Norikans live in violent, polluted conditions ruled by gangs and warlords. </p>