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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Novel where single-atom blades bounce off from each other
A long while ago (5-10 years) I read a science fiction novel in which characters dueled with nanotechnology blades that are Sharpened to a Single Atom.
One aspect I found interesting was that the ...
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Nanotech arms-race short story - nanodevice kills people who have read Drexler
I think I read this short story online (and I think it was quite short) around 2000. The main character has a friend who is enthusiastic about nanotechnology and has a copy of Drexler's Engines of ...
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Book series about a guy who is saved from an assassin by a crew, taken to their lair and taught magic, before being sent back in time
Looking for a series of books featuring sci-fi, time-travel and magic that I read around 10 years ago.
Plot points I remember:
Book opens up with the MC having a family and living in a well-guarded ...
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Sci-fi book (all-knowing cow, almost grey goo beginning, different universe/dimension)
Someone created self-replicating nanobots that replicated enough only to replace every other few nano particles. The consequence is that privacy is impossible as every nanobot has a camera and you can ...
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Book that involves sentient nanotechnology integrating itself as a "digital assistant" in nine people
I can't quite place the name of this book. I thought it was The Gift, but I was wrong. The book was in English and I don't remember the year. I feel like saying more recently, circa 2017?
Basically ...
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Alien Nanotech Builds Space Travel Portal
There was a series of books that I read part of back in the 1980s in trade paperback form published in the US. It was newly published then I think. It featured an alien race that had perfected ...
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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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Book where everyone but one man had genetic modification
I remember, at some point, reading a book that I believe was a part of a short series.
It was about a time when nearly everyone had some level of genetic modification, and one man for some reason or ...