num_pages: 304
description: Until he escaped he had been called Sample B #3 but he had never liked this name. That would surprise themthat he could feel one way or another about it. He was designed to reshape himself based on whatever life forms he ingested; he was not made to think and certainly not to assume the shape of a repair technician whose cells he had sampled and then simply walk out of the secure compound.Artificial Intelligence is all too real in this classic of Japanese science fiction by Mariko Ohara. Jonah a child murdered by her mother has become the spirit of an AI-controlled house where the rogue cyborg once known as Sample B #3 takes refuge and making a meal of the dead girl buried under the house takes Jonahs form. On faraway Planet Caritas an outpost of human civilization the female AI system that governs society has become insane. Meanwhile the threat of the Adiaptron Empire the machine race that #3 was built to fight remains. 
language: English
title: Hybrid Child
publisher: University of Minnesota Press