Five essays on who defines Connie’s reality, consent to treatment inside the brain, Mattapoisett’s utopia, two futures fighting over the body, and the poisoning at the end.
Marge Piercy's 1976 work Woman on the Edge of Time. Every essay in this series discusses the complete story and contains full spoilers.
Listening does not require instant belief; it requires that poverty, race, gender, and diagnosis do not settle the meaning of her account before evidence is heard.
A signed form does not authorize an implant when refusal carries confinement, information is controlled, and dissent is treated as another symptom.
Its ecological repair and shared care expand human possibility, but even a better future must remain open to criticism from the people asked to inhabit it.
One future distributes bodily care while the other turns bodies into products; Connie’s present shows that both possibilities are already being built.
Her violence emerges from a system that has closed lawful exits, but stopping an abusive experiment does not erase the lives she deliberately ends.
五篇从谁有权定义康妮的现实、脑内治疗的同意、马塔波伊塞特的理想、两种未来对身体的争夺与投毒结局出发，读未来怎样在今天分配可信与不可信。
玛吉·皮尔西作品。本系列各篇均涉及完整剧情。
当康妮说自己见过未来，谁有权决定她说的是什么。
以治疗之名进入一个人的大脑，需要什么同意。
马塔波伊塞特是理想社会，还是另一种对人的安排。
两种未来都在争夺身体：卢西恩特与吉尔迪娜之间。
康妮毒死医生以后，我们还能把她称为正义者吗。
五篇從誰有權定義康妮的現實、腦內治療的同意、馬塔波伊塞特的理想、兩種未來對身體的爭奪與投毒結局出發，讀未來怎樣在今天分配可信與不可信。
瑪吉·皮爾西作品。本系列各篇均涉及完整劇情。
當康妮說自己見過未來，誰有權決定她說的是什麼。
以治療之名進入一個人的大腦，需要什麼同意。
馬塔波伊塞特是理想社會，還是另一種對人的安排。
兩種未來都在爭奪身體：盧西恩特與吉爾迪娜之間。
康妮毒死醫生以後，我們還能把她稱為正義者嗎。