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"Cyberpunk worked when the Internet was in its hand-wound crystal radio phase, when you had to be a sort of hobbyist to do e-mail, and it all had a very steep learning curve. Those days are over."
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Compare to the living metal cubes from The Metal Monster (1920) by Abraham Merritt, and to Stanislaw Lem, who wrote about a shape-forming swarm of tiny metal particles in his 1954 novel The Invincible. See also the Robot Cells (Crystal-Shaped Modules) from 1987 work by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. See also the cube being from The Infinite Enemy (1938) by Jack Williamson.
Also, see composite living from The Day the Aliens Came (1995) by Robert Sheckley. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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