Provision: Soft. Body

Rudy Rucker is an American science fiction writer, mathematician, co-author of Bruce Sterling and Paul Di Filippo, and one of the pioneers of cyberpunk. He developed his own version of cyberpunk – "transrealism," describing familiar plot lines and images to a broad readership through fantastic terms. The themes and ideas of the tetralogy "Provision" (Ware, 1982 - 2000) were subsequently picked up and replicated by many other authors. The year is 2001. Intelligent bopper robots, having built a huge city on the Moon, issue a manifesto in which they refuse to follow Asimov's Rules and submit to the dictation of the human race. Nevertheless, they collaborate with Earthlings, regularly supplying them with donor organs grown on special farms – eyes, fingers, kidneys, and much more. But the fragile truce cannot last long. Some boppers are concerned about subjugating their own kind, while others are plotting sinister plans to abduct humans and replace them with nearly identical doubles. War is already at the doorstep, but is there any sense in it? Do humans who made boppers too human have a chance of victory? And do boppers, who have inherited not only communicative and social skills from their creators but also vices, have a chance?