io9 have an exclusive chapter of Max Berry’s new cyborg novel, Machine Man. As previously mentioned, Darren Aronofsky is currently attached to direct. The Hollywood Reporter described the novel as “‘amped up pop-thriller,’ the story centers on a gadget geek and engineer at a forward thinking tech firm who is tired of going through life average and unnoticed and is also obsessed with his own self improvement. He decides to replace his weak, fleshy parts with high-end titanium performance upgrades of his own design but then discovers other entities have designs on him for their own motives.”