It is the myriad facets of the storyline, the characters, and, yes, the tech and the way it is used that is well established as innovative, even today. Make no mistake: the first volume in The Ghost In The Shell series is not to be missed! Dick was one of the first to combine this AI and/or soul-brain into machine concept along the rough and jaded lines that were foundational for cyberpunk: gritty, grim futures with deadly and often seemingly unnatural additions in the forms of robotics to humans and to the bots themselves. That concept in and of itself may not be very original.ĭo Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep by Philip K. If cybernetic limbs can lead to cyborgs with implants, why cannot a brain, a soul, a ghost, eventually be uploaded into a full-on cyborg model. The following review of The Ghost In The Shell Volume 1 is *Spoiler Free* It does so today as well, but the 21 st Century depicted in the epic manga series has hit on many eerie notes that are developed or in development in the modern age, the digital age. In the 1990s, The Ghost In The Shell Volume 1 must have left readers in a state of utter incredulity.

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