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"...the people dealing with these new technologies will still be derived from the human stock we're familiar with today."
- Charles Stross
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As far as I know, the first use of this word in science fiction.
| Never had he been more remote from wine-dark seas, sun-bright mountains, and the little houses and olive groves of men. Not in the depths of the Underworld, nor the rustling mysterious branches of Yggdrasil, drowned coral palace of shark-toothed Nan, monster-haunted caverns of Xibalba, infinite intricate rooms-within-rooms where dwelt the Jade Emperor, storms and stars and immensities commanded by Yahweh . . .nowhere, nowhen had he met an eeriness like that which encompassed him; and he knew that the world in truth stood on the rim of a new age, or of an abyss. |
| Technovelgy from A Feast for the Gods,
by Poul and Karen Anderson. Published by Fantasy Science Fiction in 1971 Additional resources -
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