Cyborg Fever

By Laurie Sheck At the center of the book is the narrator, Erwin, left as an hours’-old infant on the steps of an orphanage where he is named after the renowned physicist Erwin Schrodinger (of the famous Schrodinger’s cat experiment). After a traumatic fall into a year-long fever-dream, he experiences many visions that take him into many areas of inquiry including the nature of the universe, bio-engineering, medical experimentation, cyborgs, AI, space and time, and ultimately teaches him the nature of love. Along the way he encounters glowing white screens that come alive with facts and stories about such giants of modern science as Einstein, Heisenberg, and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the self-taught “father of modern rocket science”. He learns about Laika, the first living being sent into outer space without any prospect of return, and Michael Collins the Apollo 11 Astronaut who traveled alone to the far side of the moon. He develops a friendship with a gentle cyborg who has escaped from