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"If I can make you see the world the way I see it, then you will automatically think the way I think."
- Philip K. Dick
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| Microde | ||
| A tailored virus, that infects the selected person, and passes on whatever characteristics have been implanted in the virus. |
In the near future world of Armed Memory, most people have made some sort of modification to their own body. Let's just say they've gone a bit beyond the usual piercing and tattooing:
| I wouldn't have recognized him because he'd had himself microded into a wolfman, except that he was wearing a Minnesota Vikings muscle shirt. That made me look at him carefully, and beneath all the hair, and even with the snout and the canine teeth, I could see it was him. There isn't a whole lot to getting microded. They draw a little blood, separate out your genes and splice them with whatever else you need. After that, they pack it into a synthetic virus, shoot you full of it, and the virus infects every cell in your body. Within a couple of weeks you can start to tell what you're going to look like when it's over. |
| From Armed Memory,
by Jim Smith. Published by Tor in 1995 Additional resources -
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Microde is just the next logical step in making a personal statement with your body.
Built your dream body with microde - and you want that big brain you've always needed? You might want to become a bubblehead (big-head brainiacs) from The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrytch by Philip K. Dick.
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