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In the middle of the 21st century, our battered environment has taken revenge on humanity: fierce UV radiation and a rising sea level have made human life very difficult. Wars have assumed dramatic dimensions. The gap between rich and poor in society has grown. People who do not have the privilege to work for one of the big corporations which have taken power are forced to live in the "Glop" where individuals have to fight for their lifes.
Shira Shipman works for one of these powerful corporations, but as they take her son away from her, she begins to fight for her rights as mother and woman. She returns to Tikva, a free town where she was brought up by her grandmother. Here she begins to work on the programming of a cyborg named Yod. Due to technological progress the dream of humanity to create "It" has become true. Artificial life which resembles to human beings. Shira teaches Yod human feelings and behaviour. He becomes more and more human like and soon a love relationship is developing. Y-S which is also interested in the cyborg threatens to destroy Tikva, if they do not hand over Yod. Shira decides to protect Tikva and to get back her son with the help of Yod. Parallely to this story set in the future, a second strand takes us back to Prague in the year 1600. At that time Jews had to live in Ghettos and were not save from persecution by the Christians. In this beleaguered environment the idea to create a being which could defend the oppressed was born.
This mystical tale about the creation of a "Golem" shows that the desire to create humanoid life has existed for centuries, but was technically not possible. Now it will not be a long time before we have the possibility. Marge Piercy's novel shows us what could happen if this creation gets into the hands of power-hungry people who use it as a weapon and that people will not be able to control a machine which should be a copy of a human without faults.
When I heard that I had to read a science-fiction book in my English class I was not very keen on it to start with, because I normally do not like sci-fi books. However after a few pages I was not able to put it aside. Besides a touching love story Piercy also describes a future vision which reflects our society very critically. On the one hand the reader can find out a lot about Jewish history and what it feels like to be oppressed. I was scared to read about the final destruction: such a vision seems to be unbearably up-to-date.On the other hand it shows us a prophecy of a society, where corporations have grown and form totalitarian regimes. Even in our time big corporations have much influence on political decisions and they decide on which research they wish to spend their money. Alas their decisions are not always in favour of humanity. What will happen, if they soon have the possibility to create artifical life? Fact is that humans will never be able to create artificial life which is perfect, because there have never been perfect humans.
Anyhow, the novel is set mainly in a somewhat dystopic semi-near future, with a portion of the book alternating between the main story in the future and a retelling of the classical golem legend. In fact, the main story is quite clearly an adaption of the golem tale, not only in the notion of creating intelligent life, but in that creation being the defender of a shtetl-like town weathering a pogrom. The ending could be stronger, but the book holds up.
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