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"By the time I can take people out to where Hubble is looking, they won't be human anymore, by a long way."
- Larry Niven
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| Inverted Containment | ||
| A 'containment' room that does the opposite, and blocks out something pervasive. |
| It's a five-minute walk from Lee's desk to the room where the containment unit is installed. One question answers itself immediately: the vault is an Ed Hix model. His signature style of containment architecture is recognizable a mile out. Sleek, white, plainly impregnable with the aid of extremly heavy tools...
Inside, it's pitch dark for a few seconds... There is a video playing, apparently recorded on the laptop's own camera... "In fact," the recorded Quinn says, "this is the only room in the world where U-3125 is not present. It's called "inverted containment." U-3125 pervades all of reality except for volumes that have been specially shielded from its influence. And this is it..." |
| Technovelgy from There Is No Antimimetics Division,
by QNTM. Published by Ballantine in 2025 Additional resources -
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Compare to the privacy screen from Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson.
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