"Upgrade"
| Title | "Upgrade" |
| Year for Search | 2021 |
| Authors | Silver, Alex |
| Secondary Authors | Coatsworth, J. Scott |
| Secondary Title | Fix the World: Twelve Sci-Fi Writers Save the Future |
| Pagination | 110-148 |
| Date Published | 2021 |
| Publisher | Other Worlds Ink |
| Place Published | Sacramento, CA |
| Keywords | Canadian author, Transgender author, US author |
| Annotation | A cyberpunk story in which mods (body modifications and improvements) are common but strictly regulated and constantly surveilled by an authoritarian system. The story focuses on one transgender individual with many illegal mods who almost inadvertently brings about change. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | The transgender author, who uses the pronouns he/him, grew up in the U.S. and lives in Canada. |
| Full Text | 2021 Silver, Alex. “Upgrade.” Fix the World: Twelve Sci-Fi Writers Save the Future. Ed. J. Scott Coatsworth (Sacramento, CA: Other Worlds Ink, 2021), 110-148. PSt A cyberpunk story in which mods (body modifications and improvements) are common but strictly regulated and constantly surveilled by an authoritarian system. The story focuses on one transgender individual with many illegal mods who almost inadvertently brings about change. The transgender author, who uses the pronouns he/him, grew up in the U.S. and lives in Canada. |
