He, She and It

He, She, and It (retitled Body of Glass in the United Kingdom) is a 1991 cyberpunk novel by American writer Marge Piercy. It won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 1993. The novel, set in an post-apocalyptic America, follows a romance between a human woman and a cyborg created to protect her community from corporate raiders. The novel also interweaves a secondary narrative of the creation of a golem in 17th century Prague. Like Piercy's earlier novel Woman on the Edge of Time (1976), He, She, and It also examines themes such as gender roles, political economy, and environmentalism. 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.