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| A human being with augmented body parts. |
| Archie had been able to add more personalized biorgnic components to the humeld that was himself. A carbo squeezer, muscle assists, and most significantly a full course of bone actuation treatments. |
| Technovelgy from The Human Blend,
by Alan Dean Foster. Published by Del Rey in 2010 Additional resources -
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Compare to the decorative implants that form a substantial part of Samuel R. Delany's Nebula award-winning 1968 novel Babel 17.
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