Five essays on corporate custody, Yod’s social education, a defender’s right to refuse war, designed intimacy, and why rebuilding the same memories is not resurrection.
Marge Piercy's 1991 work He, She and It. Every essay in this series discusses the complete story and contains full spoilers.
Y-S governs employment, housing, law, and family access, turning Shira’s bond with Ari into leverage while a freer community may still have purposes for her.
Social learning opens a world beyond combat, yet creators and teachers can hide their preferences inside what they call natural maturity.
Tikva faces genuine danger, but need cannot turn one manufactured body into the permanent bearer of costs that everyone else may debate.
Yod and Shira can form a real relation without escaping the shadow of designed intimacy, teacher authority, and the demand that a beloved be free to leave.
A reconstructed Yod would inherit extraordinarily rich materials but begin a new first-person life, one that cannot be conscripted into the old love or mission.
五篇从企业城邦的监护权、约德的社会化、防卫者能否拒战、被设计的爱情与复制复活出发，读被制造者能否拒绝制造目的。
玛吉·皮尔西作品。本系列各篇均涉及完整剧情。
公司为什么能用孩子的监护权约束母亲。
希拉是在教育约德，还是替创造者完成性格设计。
被制造来保护城市的生命，能不能选择不再战斗。
当一方原本就是为人类需要而造，爱情如何获得平等。
重建一个拥有全部记忆的约德，为什么仍不是让他回来。
五篇從企業城邦的監護權、約德的社會化、防衛者能否拒戰、被設計的愛情與複製復活出發，讀被製造者能否拒絕製造目的。
瑪吉·皮爾西作品。本系列各篇均涉及完整劇情。
公司為什麼能用孩子的監護權約束母親。
希拉是在教育約德，還是替創造者完成性格設計。
被製造來保護城市的生命，能不能選擇不再戰鬥。
當一方原本就是為人類需要而造，愛情如何獲得平等。
重建一個擁有全部記憶的約德，為什麼仍不是讓他回來。