Post-apokalyptisk bok där människor kan förbättra eller ändra sitt utseende med djurkvaliteter

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Jag läste den här boken förmodligen för 10 eller 15 år sedan. Jag kommer ihåg det att börja med en ung kvinna (tror jag) pratar med en dator och ändrar sitt utseende i en spegel. Jag tror att hon gjorde subtila förändringar som var aktuella med det som var populärt för tiden och jag tror att boken förklarade att andra människor hade valt att göra mindre subtila förändringar och gå på full vardjur.

Boken följer henne och hennes pappa som blir ledare för en ny civilisation, när huvuddatorn drabbas av terrorister eller något. De faller i de mörka åldrarna och måste tillgripa för att överleva som de gjorde under medeltiden. Det var mycket beskrivande vid en tidpunkt då kvinnan försökte räkna ut hur de brukade hantera menstruationscykler utan teknik. Jag kommer ihåg att det var en dålig kille, och jag tror att han var var-tiger eller panter-man, men han ville ha tjejen. Han började riva de små bosättningarna som hade uppstått i efterdyningarna, och blev som ett krigsherre som drabbade havok, plundrade och rapade. Tjejen pojkvän slog det sista slaget med honom och förlorade armen.

Jag är ganska säker på att boken skrevs på 1950-talet. Jag kommer ihåg att tänka att det var konstigt noggrant och avancerat för när det var skrivet. Jag har försökt minnas den här boken under de senaste 10 åren eftersom den var öppen och jag tror att den var en del av en serie. Jag kommer ihåg att den här boken är en av de bästa jag någonsin har läst. Det kan få dig att knyta tänderna, skratta och gråta på en gång. Kan någon hjälpa mig att hitta den?

    
uppsättning NastyN8 13.01.2019 19:56

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Det kommer att finnas drakar av John Ringo. ( tillgänglig på en Baen-cd )

In the future there is no want, no war, no disease nor ill-timed death. The world is a paradise-and then, in a moment, it ends. The council that controls the Net falls out and goes to war. Everywhere people who have never known a moment of want or pain are left wondering how to survive. But scattered across the face of the earth are communities which have returned to the natural life of soil and small farm. In the village of Raven's Mill, Edmund Talbot, master smith and unassuming historian, finds that all the problems of the world are falling in his lap. Refugees are flooding in, bandits are roaming the woods, and his former lover and his only daughter struggle through the Fallen landscape. Enemies, new and old, gather like jackals around a wounded lion. But what the jackals do not know is that while old he may be, this lion is far from death. And hidden in the past is a mystery that has waited until this time to be revealed. You cross Edmund Talbot at your peril, for a smith is not "all" he once was. . . .

Relevanta scener:

Teenage Girl Body Change:

"Well, you know that Marguerite's birthday party is coming up, right?"
"I'm not going to let you have a body-sculpt, Rachel," Daneh said lifting her chin and t'tching in negation. "We've been over this before."
"But Mommm!" the teenager whined. "My body is disgusting. I'm too fat. My boobs are huge and my butt is the size of Mount Evert! Pleeease!?"
"You're not too fat," the doctor said definitively. "Your body mass index is square in the center of the charts; your nannites wouldn't let it be anywhere else. And this . . . boyish look that is the current fad is not healthy, even for females who have been body sculpted. You can only pare away so far then you're into reserves. Your friend Marguerite is probably below seven percent body fat. That's not healthy. Barely so for a male and not for an unChanged female. And I'm not going to let you tinker with your DNA . . ."
"I know, Mom," Rachel said with an exasperated sigh. "But . . . I just look like a cow. I'm sorry, but that's how I feel."
"Okay, just this once," Daneh sighed. "And only for the party and only a bit. Stand up."
Rachel bounced off the bed and held out the hologram projector, a thumb-sized cube of crystal. "I was looking at some styles. Can I have Varian Vixen?"

Edmund (flickans pappa) blir ledare för det nya samhället efter kriget:

"We need a vote," Myron said. "Any other nominations? Edmund, do you accept?"
The smith looked at the ground and to the others. A weight appeared to settle on his shoulders and something old and hard seemed to be in his countenance. But when he looked up his face was clear.
"I do."
"Any other nominations? No. All in favor say aye."
"Aye!"
"Opposed?" There was silence. "Passed by acclamation, Mayor Edmund."

Kvinna börjar mensurating efter medicinska naniter misslyckas

"Not from her . . . anus," Tom said. "The . . . the other part. I'm sorry if I'm being unclear, but this is my mother, okay?"
"Okay," Daneh answered. She wracked her brain for what might be wrong and there was something nagging at her. But for the life of her, the only thing that came to mind was some sort of internal injury. "Did she fall? Was she hit?"
"Not that I'm aware of," Tom said.
Daneh held her peace until they reached the sprawling farmyard, then hurried inside with Rachel at her heels.

They went upstairs to where Myron was standing outside the bedroom door, wringing his hands.
"Thank God you're here, Daneh," Myron said. "I . . . she's . . . I just can't take it. Please help her!"
"I'll see what I can do, Myron," Daneh answered, secretly fearful that there wouldn't be much she could do. Without nannites she was virtually helpless. She might know the inner workings of the human body, but fixing that body took tools she no longer possessed."

    
svaret ges 14.01.2019 14:21