What Makes a Human Human?
Borrowed Time, by author Zuzana Strachotová
What makes a human human? Sofie Adlerová has lost literally everything. The world she knew. The people she loved. Even her own identity. Instead of half a year, she spent over one hundred and sixty years in cryogenic stasis. The clash with reality is devastating, and her existence soon shrinks to mere medical experiments. Until the director of bionic organism development decides to advance her artificial intelligence research. How do you convince society that bioroids can be just as perfect as humans? The top officials of the technocratic corporation IGMET need proof. And who better to test how human a bioroid can be than a person who doesn't officially exist and is, moreover, so different?
Ichirō's task is actually simple – find a way to integrate her into society. But Sofie has a mind and plans of her own and decides to show the technological city that there is no such thing as a utopia. And it doesn't matter whether people or bioroids stand in her way. Ichirō's programmed mind is not prepared for any of this, and a conflict is inevitable. Until his own judgement begins to form…
