Hershman Leeson's female cyborgs and AI projects explore seduction, the performance of gender, and the tantalizing idea of creating new life - forms and reproducing ourselves, touching on the utopic and
dystopic scenarios inherent in both.
Having not read the book, my interest was quelled by the high - concept premise: imagine
a dystopic scenario where all of a sudden and quite inexplicably the people around you start going blind and, like a virus, this blindness spreads in every direction leaving a society crippled and in frantic want of quarantine; yet you keep your vision and bear witness to the theatre of the absurd that occurs in the absence of that so vital sense in others.