Richard Doyle is associate professor of rhetoric and science studies in the Department of English at Penn State University. He is the author of On beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences (1997).

• Representing life for a living -- Simflesh, simbones : at play in the artificial life ribotype -- Disciplined by the future : the promising bodies of cryonics -- Give me a body, then : corporeal time-images -- Remains to be seen : a self-extracting amalgam -- Uploading anticipation, becoming silicon -- Dot coma : the dead zone of media and the replication of family values -- Take my bone marrow, please : the community in which we have organs in common -- Wetwares ; or, cutting up a few aliens -- Sympathyfor the alien : informatic ecologies and the proliferation of abduction.

Richard Doyle is associate professor of rhetoric and science studies in the Department of English at Penn State University. He is the author of On beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences (1997).

• Representing life for a living -- Simflesh, simbones : at play in the artificial life ribotype -- Disciplined by the future : the promising bodies of cryonics -- Give me a body, then : corporeal time-images -- Remains to be seen : a self-extracting amalgam -- Uploading anticipation, becoming silicon -- Dot coma : the dead zone of media and the replication of family values -- Take my bone marrow, please : the community in which we have organs in common -- Wetwares ; or, cutting up a few aliens -- Sympathyfor the alien : informatic ecologies and the proliferation of abduction.