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Related to material in The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista
by J.G. Ballard

"Today's house-hunter has only minor problems: the schools, the taxes, the neighbors, the mortgage. But in a world of psychotropic houses— where the very walls respond to the emotions of those who live (and lived) in them— buying the right house can be a matter of life and death."

('The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista' by JG Ballard)

Another excellent story in the Vermillion Sands collection. A man and his wife hope to be happy in a new home, but its previous owner entangles them in her traumatic life due to the psychotropic features of the house.

Science fiction in the News articles describe real-world events that relate to the ideas and inventions in sf novels and movies. Select a news article:

Self-Healing Metal Coating
   Imagine a material that can heal itself when scratched, or become more corrosion-resistant, or become self-lubricating.

Nanotech Self-Healing Houses
   If a house had the right kind of walls, could it alter enough to heal itself?

Self-Healing Polymer Autonomous Material System
   Autonomous materials may be able to heal themselves without high maintenance costs.

HypoSurface Walls Are Full Of Life
   This remarkable new display surface is a pretty good implementation of a J.G. Ballard idea from the 1960's.

FLARE Creates 'Skin' For Buildings
   Interesting idea for a flexible, interactive membrane that would allow a building to let air and light in, and let freedom of expression out.

Touchy Feely Trigger Point Mouldings
   If you've ever desired a more intimate relationship with the walls of your apartment or business, I've got just the thing for you.

555 KUBIK - If A House Was Dreaming
   What would a morphing transforming building that constantly revealed its internal spaces look like?

Self-Healing Concrete Uses Bacteria For Healing
   Is it possible that bacteria in buildings could play the role of your body's osteoblast cells - repairing their minor fractures?

Autonomous Adaptive Structure Uses Shape Memory Polymer
   Part of an autonomous adaptive structure created at MIT.

'Supra B 'Toys Soon Self-Healing
   Toy, heal thyself.

Self-Healing Batteries
   It would be better if our gadgets could simply repair themselves when broken (with video).

Outdoor Testing For Self-Healing Concrete
   'I noticed that curious mottled knots were forming, indicating where the room had been strained and healed faultily.'- J.G. Ballard, 1962.

Fungi-Infused Concrete Repairs Itself
   'I noticed that curious mottled knots were forming, indicating where the room had been strained and healed faultily.'- J.G. Ballard, 1962.

MXene Hydrogel Skin For Robots Flexes And Senses
   'The plastex swam and whirled like boiling toothpaste...' - JG Ballard, 1962.

Kinetic Buildings And Psychotropic Houses
   'There was a dim whirring, and the spheres tipped and began to rotate...' - JG Ballard, 1962.

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