I, Cyborg

Outpace, outgun, and outsmart every enemy as a fugitive cyborg outlaw!

Outfly, outshoot, and outwit your foes as a renegade cyborg on the run! You are a cyborg replica of the interstellar outlaw Ypsilanti Rowe, and both your enemies and ex-lovers are hunting you. Can you upgrade your mind and pull off one final, legendary heist?

"I, Cyborg" is a 300,000-word interactive science fiction novel by Tracy Canfield. It is a completely text-based experience, with no graphics or sound effects, driven entirely by the limitless power of your imagination.

Being a cyborg copy of the infamous outlaw Ypsilanti Rowe has its perks. But when your cybernetic brain starts to fail, only a rare and obsolete component can restore your systems. Travel across the galaxy in search of this missing part. Along the way, you'll engage in ship-to-ship combat or cloak your presence from enemy sensors; romance Ypsilanti's former flames—or simply avoid their crosshairs; dogfight through intense gravity storms and outrun pirates within the treacherous tunnels of a mined-out asteroid.

When Ypsilanti appears in the original flesh, will you become the ultimate team? Or is this galaxy only big enough for one of you?

• Play as male or female; gay, straight, bisexual, or asexual.

• Enhance your abilities with cybernetic upgrades—you are a cyborg, after all.

• Ambush a weapons convoy orbiting the rings of a gas giant.

• Smuggle exotic alien pets, break into a comet prison, and befriend a sentient starship.

• Work for local crime syndicates, turn them against each other, or inform on them to the Intersolar Police.

• Infiltrate centers of power and steal top-secret data with a touch of your augmented fingertips.

• Choose to rely on your human intuition, your custom software, or find a balance between the two.