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"I'm very taken by mythology. I read it at a very early age and kept on reading it. Before I discovered science fiction I was reading mythology."
- Roger Zelazny
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| Ballisticules | ||
| Nanotechnology devices that throw their weight around. |
See cookie-cutters for a complete entry. The name "ballisticule" is kind of interesting; the first part of the word refers to projectile motion, and the last part means small.
| From The Diamond Age,
by Neal Stephenson. Published by Bantam Books in 1995 Additional resources -
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