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"[Science fiction] is the only kind of writing that allows you to look at the world we live in and change one piece at a time."
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Explorers discover amazing cubes and pyramids that self-organized to build complex shapes "as though a child should build from nursery blocks a fantastic shape which abruptly is filled with throbbing life."
Compare to the cubics from The Face of the Deep (1942) by Edmond Hamilton, and to Stanislaw Lem, who wrote about a shape-forming swarm of tiny metal particles in his 1954 novel The Invincible. See also the Robot Cells (Crystal-Shaped Modules) from 1987 work by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. See also the cube being from The Infinite Enemy (1938) by Jack Williamson.
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'...she dropped her hands from the wheel, took the robot snake from his box.'
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