"Meerga"
| Title | "Meerga" |
| Year for Search | 2013 |
| Authors | Shirley, John [Patrick](b. 1954) |
| Secondary Title | New World eZine #2 [This version is no longer available online] |
| Date Published | 2013 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | The story is set in a surveillance dystopia with automated controls on any movement outside houses. In this setting, where most people stay home, an AI is created as what is called a “mere girl,” but is designed to look like a very beautiful, fully developed woman, and the story is concerned with how the family she lives with, and particularly the father and son, deal with the situation. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in Altered States: A Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Anthology. Ed. Roy C. Booth and Jorge Salgado-Reyes (Np: Indie Authors Press, 2014), 82-90; and in Big Echo, no. 14 (January 2020). https://www.bigecho.org/meerga. |
| URL | https://www.bigecho.org/meerga |
| Info Notes | The earliest version is no longer available online. |
| Author Note | (b. 1954) |
| Full Text | 2013 Shirley, John [Patrick] (b. 1954). “Meerga.” New World eZine #2 (May 2013). Rpt. in Altered States: A Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Anthology. Ed. Roy C. Booth and Jorge Salgado-Reyes (Np: Indie Authors Press, 2014), 82-90; and in Big Echo, no. 14 (January 2020). https://www.bigecho.org/meerga. The earliest version is no longer available online. The story is set in a surveillance dystopia with automated controls on any movement outside houses. In this setting, where most people stay home, an AI is created as what is called a “mere girl,” but is designed to look like a very beautiful, fully developed woman, and the story is concerned with how the family she lives with, and particularly the father and son, deal with the situation. |
