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"I received a nice letter the other day from the Dalai Lama. He had read 'The Nine Billion Names of God'. It is about a computer at a Tibetan monastery."
- Arthur C. Clarke
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| Heritable Memories Bloodline | ||
| Using magical means to tie specific memories to the bloodlines of selected families. |
The memories are typically specific visual and factual data.
| "We have all talked of the heritable memories of the House of Dare," she went on... maybe the old wizards, the engineers who raised the Keep, knew that records do get lost, especially when, as you said, fire is the principal weapon."
Gil's finger stabbed out like a sword. "They tied the memory to the bloodline and that was their record! A record that wouldn't get lost and couldn't be destroyed." |
| Technovelgy from The Time of the Dark,
by Barbara Hambly. Published by Del Rey in 1982 Additional resources -
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Compare to the DNA music storage from Year Zero (2012) by Rob Reid.
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'That explains how it was so easy for me to remain motionless in midair...'
'We had discovered that metal was relatively impervious to the telepathic effect.'
'Detailed plans for the construction of the Gundstetter-Halone warp drive were flowing.'
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'...so we've promised him a generous pension from the royalties.'
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