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"The trouble with too much genre SF is that it's so obviously the product of the conscious mind."
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![]() Explorers discover amazing cubes and pyramids that self-organized to build complex shapes "as though a child should build from nursery blocks a fantastic shape which abruptly is filled with throbbing life."
Compare 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.
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