OK, this one is skeletal, but I hope the brain trust here can make it workable.
The elements: Henrietta Lack's story; Octavia Butler's Lillith's Brood (which was contemporaneous with the first reports of Lack's immortality via cancer); zombies who attain immortality by feeding on our braaaaaains; Nisi Shawl's "Deep End."
The thread: The limlts of resistance when your body is the colonized resources
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OK, this one is skeletal, but I hope the brain trust here can make it workable.
The elements: Henrietta Lack's story; Octavia Butler's Lillith's Brood (which was contemporaneous with the first reports of Lack's immortality via cancer); zombies who attain immortality by feeding on our braaaaaains; Nisi Shawl's "Deep End."
The thread: The limlts of resistance when your body is the colonized resources