5/20/2023 0 Comments The Body Electric by David Mack![]() ![]() With flying cars and a light touch of Film Noir retro, David Mack does a good job of incorporating the modern interpretation of PKD into the story. ![]() We are left with the impression that Garson Poole has transcended this reality. ![]() The ending, like " The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch," is ambiguous, but slightly hopeful. ![]() He begins to tinker with the tape, covering over some holes, adding new ones, and that's when reality begins to break down. Prying open a seam in his chest he discovers a spaghetti of components, including a spool of punched tape which seems to control his senses, or possibly even his reality. Naturally, this is disturbing news and Garson not only has trouble breaking it to his girlfriend, but it also makes him doubt his purpose as "owner" of the company, and his very existence. After a car accident the doctors tell him he's an electric ant, an organic robot, "a precursor to the more modern replicant." Garson Poole is the owner of Tri-Plan Electronics, a company that develops hi-tech weapons systems. Dick's novels, so as a pause I decided to get the comic book adaptation of "Electric Ant." Based on the 1969 short story published in Fantasy and Science Fiction. ![]()
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