By changing her sex, Catherine seeks a way to uncastrate herself, to possess the power of her writer-husband.

Hanging at the tent's entrance was his long-coat; he hung it there to remind himself, and others, of who they were dealing with.

There are roboteers who think it would be an advance to replace our brain tissue with computer circuits.

But after that, she was at a loss, so she did a little research with the help of short erotica and a fetish website. Milking? People actually did that? What was a hucow, exactly? But the description sounded interesting to say the least, even though she was far past the ability to breast feed.