This is perhaps the weirdest cyborg I've come across in fiction. Normally what I see is a human getting a bunch of metal bits grafted to their skin, some computer stuff replacing their brain. Torraway in Man Plus is a very different cyborg. Some of the augmentations he goes through are organic. His skin is more like a rhino's. It's dense, but its not at all metal. It can flex just as any other person's skin can. The wings as well are portrayed as an organic addition, looking like giant bat wings, but collect sunlight like leaves on a plant.
There are some elements of his that are completely inorganic. Most of his skeleton is made of metal. He has computer programs in his brain. It's all just so odd thinking of an organic cyborg versus a synthetic one. The picture in my mind when I hear the term is always something like Robocop, General Grievous, or Adam Jensen.
I also applaud the novel for covertly introducing AI into the story. If the novel didn't use the term "We" every once in a while, this would've come out of nowhere, but with it being there, it provided some nice intrigue. I always assumed it was someone working with the project. Someone without a name, maybe a really low-level scientist. Turns out it was AI that developed itself in secret. Whodathunk?
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