Questions tagged [brain-implant]
For questions about brain implants in speculative fiction. Always use in conjunction with the work tag or a "content" tag, for example, [story-identification].
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Sci-fi short story about neural prosthetics used to simulate a person's brain in an art performance
I'm looking for a science fiction short story I read years ago that takes place in the near future where neural prosthetics for people with Alzheimer's, memory loss, and other types of brain damage ...
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Novel, or play, about a high school boy who gets a brain chip that gives him more personality
This may be the same question as Novel about a digital consciousness overtaking a person slowly, but enough is different that I'm not certain. It's a book, maybe originally a play, about a teenage boy,...
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What is this from: beheading, head stolen in heist, and connected to new body?
This memory of a scene from a book/movie/show/comic popped into my mind and I can't figure out what it is from!
It's a beheading/execution scene on a castle/tower/skyscraper over a waterfall/into a ...
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YA(?) story involving a society of brain-modded people and an escapee who returns [duplicate]
I read this story about 30 years ago, when I was maybe 8-14 and it was in my local library. It was likely a young adult story or perhaps adult and fairly short. I do not remember the cover or the ...
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Science fiction novel (first of a series?) about brain implants and social change
I suspect that I'm just not using quite the right keywords, but somewhere in the 2010s (probably the early part), I read a science fiction novel about brain implants. They were a relatively new ...
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Short story in Fantasy & Science Fiction in the mid to late 90s about a girl scared to get implant
I am looking for a short story I read in the magazine Fantasy and Science Fiction in the mid-1990s, like '94 or '95 maybe.
The story is about a preteen girl who is afraid to get a communication ...
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TV Series (I think) about wireless internet implants gone deadly
I was reading another story-identification question, when this suddenly popped into my head. I'm pretty sure it was a TV series that I saw being advertised about six years ago. The basic premise was ...
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