The Girl Who Was Plugged In - James Tiptree, Jr. (aka Alice Sheldon) is primarily renowned for her short fiction, but this piece, which won the Hugo for best novella in 1974, is also top-notch. It imagines a future completely ruled by corporations, where advertising is illegal, because life is advertisingcompanies use celebrities and product placement to sell their wares. Philadelphia (P.) Burke is a seventeen-year-old girl with severe deformities who, after a suicide attempt, is chosen to be one of those celebritiesshe controls a new, perfect body, grown brainless for this very purpose, and becomes a new famous person whose job is to publicly buy things. But then she falls in love.


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 ⚡️Book Title : The Girl Who Was Plugged In
⚡Book Author : James Tiptree Jr.
⚡Page : 35 pages
⚡Published October 1973

James Tiptree, Jr. (aka Alice Sheldon) is primarily renowned for her short fiction, but this piece, which won the Hugo for best novella in 1974, is also top-notch. It imagines a future completely ruled by corporations, where advertising is illegal, because life is advertisingcompanies use celebrities and product placement to sell their wares. Philadelphia (P.) Burke is a seventeen-year-old girl with severe deformities who, after a suicide attempt, is chosen to be one of those celebritiesshe controls a new, perfect body, grown brainless for this very purpose, and becomes a new famous person whose job is to publicly buy things. But then she falls in love.