Questions tagged [nanotechnology]
For questions about "nanotechnology", the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. A common trope in science fiction works set in the future.
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Book with nano/biotech, maze/labyrinth, prisoners
I'm looking for some help identifying a book I read 10 - 15 years ago. I know this is probably a long shot, but extensive keyword searching Google bears no fruit.
The story is about a group of ...
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Novel with nanotech, a utopia isolated from grey goo, and an AI in the protagonist's head
The only reason I even remembered the plot was due to the nanite use. I don't think the plot is very original and is similar to at least a dozen other books written in the last 10 years, but I figured ...
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Book - Three teenagers find a spaceship and gain powers from headsets in it
I’ve tried to search for this book using keywords and quotes on Google, but I couldn’t find it.
In this book, three teenagers, a boy and two girls, find a lost spaceship that was camouflaging itself. ...
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Novel with an enemy Captain of a ship that has nanotech that causes his fingers to endlessly bifurcate
I was reading Novel about an AI (robot) becoming more human than the owner and the mention of probes that subdivided made me remember a paperback I read, I think on the early 2000s, maybe as a ...
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Novel about a man subject to nanotech experiments who ends up with an advanced starship
Looking for the title of a full length novel. The main character was in a research station and was subject of nanotech experiments that could cause deformity and death. He escapes and ends up with an ...
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Book about a man abducted by aliens and steals their ship
I read this a long time ago when I was young. I read it on my dad's kindle and have no idea what the title could be.
I believe it was about a man that was abducted by an alien ship and woke up after ...
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Book involving Alien Invasion, enslavement of human race
I know the details of the book well enough, but I can't remember the title or series title for the life of me. It is recent (Post 2008 or so). YA sci-fi. Set in the UK at modern times.
Book one, kid ...
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Trying to find a story about a woman and her story with nanotechnology
The plot is centered on a woman. She had a husband who was a scientist. He always told her stories about the future and their technology. She doesn't care much about it. I don't remember why but the ...
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Story about a man bringing nanomachines from the future to save his lover [duplicate]
Many years ago I read a short (?) sci-fi story that I've since lost track of.
Here's what I remember:
A man came from the future, met a girl, fell in love, told her he was from the future and (not ...
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Scifi novel. Colony on the moon, nanotech, sex changing journalist main character
I read a book years ago about a colony on the moon. Nanotechnology played a huge part in the story. No, it wasn't either of the Ben Bova moon books. In this one, the main character (and almost all the ...
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Can anyone tell me title or author of following story?
Can anyone tell me the title. Starts with hikers finding a cinder cone peak where none had existed previously in Death Valley. Aliens had landed nano machines which had spread and started to ...
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Are there signs that the Matrix holds any technological resemblance to out-of-universe computers?
I've read on several occasions here a tendency to assume that the Matrix as a technology is operated much like out-of-universe (i.e. "our world") computers: Assuming the Matrix runs in a ...
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Short story about aliens who use technology to surpass psychic abilities
I seem to remember the story being named "Limiting Factor", but the descriptions do not match.
Earth explorers find a planet where here are crocodile-like beings lazing in a sunny swamp. Suddenly a ...
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old woman, nanobots, crosslinked noodles, genetically engineered dog in a vest delivering a message
Book is similar in style and elements to "The Diamond Age". World demographics are mostly "old women". They hold most of the wealth and most of the political power. Young people have a hard time ...
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Book about nano-particles and enhanced soldiers
The book is about nano-technology. The people were practically immortal because they were enhanced with nano particles. There was a girl who was the slave of a billionaire and was known as his black/...
