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"In science fiction one can say a great many things that are unpalatable, … because it's expressed as science fiction you can slip it past their defenses."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Exfection | ||
| Tailored microbes to repair human flesh. |
| "This is Jiuquan, we don't trifle with stupid narcotics!" Sonja had a raging exfection. An «exfection» was very much like an infection. Except, instead of causing human flesh to waste away rapidly in a noisome mass of pus, an exfection was a kindly state-designed microbe that caused damaged human flesh to heal at more-than-human speed.
There were yellow, crusty, suppurating masses of exfection thriving all over Sonja's bomb-scorched shins and forearms. The crude bomb had shocked her and burned her, but since the airlock was made almost entirely of fabric, there had been no killing shrapnel. |
| Technovelgy from The Caryatids,
by Bruce Sterling. Published by Random House in 2009 Additional resources -
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