Autonomous (2017)

Drug pirate Jack tries to make medicine available beyond the people who can pay for patents, while an enforcement robot confronts the limits of its own freedom. Newitz links chemical alteration, ownership and manufactured desire, keeping access and consent inside the same argument. A sharp, sexually explicit thriller for readers interested in who profits from changing a body. The pharmaceutical and robotic mechanisms are invented; the unequal power to choose is the point of the story.