From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Aug 05 2003 - 22:08:19 MDT
At 10:34 PM 8/5/03 +0200, Anders wrote:
>I actually have them in my current sf setting. "Nanoists" are people
>with nanoenhancements (ranging from a bit of respirocytes or an onboard
>wearable to Freitas' artificial circulatory system and laminated diamond
>skeletons). Some of them (who have the right product activation keys ;-)
>can transfer a "seed" to normal people, giving them parts of their own
>powers (usually a complete package). This way you get clades of
>nanoists.
A version is in Ken MacLeod's richly detailed third volume of his Engines
of Light trilogy, ENGINE CITY. The alien Multipliers are sort of fractal
Moravecian Moties whose `children', all the way down, can infest your
bloodstream...
Damien Broderick
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