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"It's hard to tell stories about critters that are not human. John W. Campbell tried it, in "Twilight," and everybody says it's a wonderful story, and nobody ever reads it twice."
- Jerry Pournelle
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| Webeye | ||
| Communications device with a camera, microphone, zoom lens, projector, etc.; can be sprayed on. |
It looks like a spider web with a black spider at the center.
| The wooden table was tremendous, the size of a kzinti banquet. A year ago the Hindmost had had to turn down the olfactory gain in the webeye, for the stench of old blood rising from the table. The smell was fainter now. Kzinti tapestries and crudely carved frescoes had been removed, too bloody for the hominids' taste. Some had been moved to Chmeee's cabin.
Their infant daughter seemed happy enough at one end of the table itself. At the other end, the raw half of a huge fish awaited the Kzin's pleasure. Chmeee eyed the fish. "Your luck was good," he approved. His eyes roved the ceiling and walls. He found what he sought: a glittering fractal spiderweb just under the great orange bulb at the apex of the dome. Chmeee said, "We have a spy. I thought as much, but now we know it. The puppeteer placed cameras among us." |
| Technovelgy from The Ringworld Throne,
by Larry Niven. Published by Ballantine in 1996 Additional resources -
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See the NYC Surveillance Camera Project. Or, take a look at copseyes from Cloak of Anarchy also by Larry Niven.
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