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{{Short description|1991 novel by Marge Piercy}}
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| author        = [[Marge Piercy]]
| country       = United States
| language      = English
| genre         = [[Cyberpunk]]
| published     = 1991
| publisher     = Fawcett
| media_type    = Print
| pages         = 448
| isbn          = 978-0-449-22060-3
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'''''He, She, and It''''' (retitled '''''Body of Glass''''' in the United Kingdom) is a 1991 [[cyberpunk]] novel by American writer [[Marge Piercy]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=He She And It |url=https://margepiercy.com/he-she-and-it |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=Marge Piercy |language=en-US}}</ref> It won the [[Arthur C. Clarke Award]] for Best [[Science fiction|Science Fiction]] [[Novel]] in 1993.<ref>[https://www.clarkeaward.com/#about/ Arthur C. Clarke Award]</ref><ref>"Marge Piercy Wins Arthur C. Clarke Award", ''[[Locus (magazine)|Locus]]'' v.30, n.5, p.8 (May 1993).</ref> The novel, set in an [[post-apocalyptic]] America, follows a romance between a human woman and a [[cyborg]] created to protect her community from [[corporate raid]]ers. The novel also interweaves a secondary narrative of the creation of a [[golem]] in 17th century [[Prague]]. Like Piercy's earlier novel ''[[Woman on the Edge of Time]]'' (1976), ''He, She, and It'' also examines themes such as [[gender role]]s, [[political economy]], and [[environmentalism]]. In the mid-twenty-first century, Norika (formerly North America) is a toxic wasteland. Dominated by powerful corporations known as "multis", the region includes environmental domes, independent "free towns", and the chaotic "Glop", where most Norikans live in violent, polluted conditions ruled by gangs and warlords.