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"I went [to the top of] Vehicle Assembly Building and looked down, and tears burst from my eyes. The size of this cathedral where the Rockets take off to go to the moon is so amazing."
- Ray Bradbury
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| Flexy (or Flexies) | ||
| A flexible, quasi-living computer. |
| As the car slid along Rockhopper's spine, Bella unzipped her jacket and removed the flexy that had been recharging itself from her body heat. A deft flick of her wrist stiffened the sheet of leathery plastic. The ShipNet menu formed in its iridophores, tinged with a blue-green cast where some of the flexy's living cells were beginning to die. |
| Technovelgy from Pushing Ice,
by Alastair Reynolds. Published by Gollancz in 2005 Additional resources -
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Flexies could also be joined in an array:
Thanks to Perry for suggesting this item.
Parry walked past the game to the oxygen pump and picked up the flexy, squeezing it gently so as not to injure the quasi-living thing...
Flexies had been plastered to the wall, their edges staggered like bricks to form a ragged array that showed an object that could only be artificial...
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