Man Made

"Man Made" by Albert R. Teichner is a thought-provoking science fiction story unfolding in a future where people can replace their body parts with artificial ones. The book looks at big questions about who we are, what makes us human, and the idea of the soul in a time of advanced technology. The main character, Treb Hawley, is an astronaut whose body is changed a lot through surgery after accidents in space. As he gets more and more synthetic parts, Hawley wonders what it means to lose his original body and whether he is even the same person anymore. He thinks about what makes him, him, and whether replacing parts little by little creates something new entirely. In the end, Hawley has a surgery that makes him completely synthetic, pushing the limits of life, identity, and soul, and maybe showing us a new kind of human being.