Dear Cyborgs
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 First edition | |
| Author | Eugene Lim |
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| Publisher | FSG Originals |
Publication date | June 6, 2017 |
| Pages | 176 |
| Preceded by | The Strangers (2013) |
| Followed by | Search History (2021) |
Dear Cyborgs is a 2017 novel with elements of speculative fiction by American writer Eugene Lim. Lim wrote two other novels before Dear Cyborgs, which include Fog and Car (2008) and The Strangers (2013).[1]
Influences
Lim wrote the novel before the 2016 presidential election.[2] He nevertheless wrote it in "a state of despair" due to climate change and economic inequality, which he refers to as two “slow apocalypses”.[2]
Lim has said that he believes "...superheroes are the central mythology of our collective global era" on their inclusion in the novel.[2]
A number of works influenced Lim while writing Dear Cyborgs.[3] Tan Lin's Insomnia and the Aunt and Yongsoo Park's Boy Genius both influenced the novel's plot as existing works that subvert tropes in Asian American assimilation plots.[3] Robert Creeley's The Island and Eileen Myles’ Inferno—both "poet's novels"—influenced Lim's authorial presence.[3]
Setting
The novel alternates between several settings, including a "white-bread suburban" town in Ohio during the 1980s, and New York City circa 2011, during a fictionalized version of Occupy Wall Street.[4][5] Lim grew up in small-town Ohio, and later moved to New York.[6]
