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"Does it open a new horizon for my thinking? Does it lead me to think new kinds of thoughts, that I would not otherwise perhaps have thought at all? These qualities are what [make] science fiction ...unique."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Flexy (or Flexies) | ||
| A flexible, quasi-living computer. |
| As the car slid along Rockhopper's spine, Bella unzipped her jacket and removed the flexy that had been recharging itself from her body heat. A deft flick of her wrist stiffened the sheet of leathery plastic. The ShipNet menu formed in its iridophores, tinged with a blue-green cast where some of the flexy's living cells were beginning to die. |
| Technovelgy from Pushing Ice,
by Alastair Reynolds. Published by Gollancz in 2005 Additional resources -
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Flexies could also be joined in an array:
Thanks to Perry for suggesting this item.
Parry walked past the game to the oxygen pump and picked up the flexy, squeezing it gently so as not to injure the quasi-living thing...
Flexies had been plastered to the wall, their edges staggered like bricks to form a ragged array that showed an object that could only be artificial...
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