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level of complexity allow the novel to conclude on an optimistic , even utopian , note . Nanotech and Hive Mind in The Diamond Age Neal Stephenson became widely known to readers of science fiction as a result of his second novel ...
level of complexity allow the novel to conclude on an optimistic , even utopian , note . Nanotech and Hive Mind in The Diamond Age Neal Stephenson became widely known to readers of science fiction as a result of his second novel ...
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... novel Vast , Lot's interactions with the philosopher cells is rendered in terms that cannot help but evoke this notion of emergent computation , understood more generally as a dynamic and completely decentralized mode of information ...
... novel Vast , Lot's interactions with the philosopher cells is rendered in terms that cannot help but evoke this notion of emergent computation , understood more generally as a dynamic and completely decentralized mode of information ...
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... Novel Companion : A Source Book . Greenwood , 2000. xxx + 333 pp . $ 79.50 hc . The dime novel , which was young America's favorite reading material from 1875 to 1920 , has been terra incognita . Unlike science fiction readers , dime ...
... Novel Companion : A Source Book . Greenwood , 2000. xxx + 333 pp . $ 79.50 hc . The dime novel , which was young America's favorite reading material from 1875 to 1920 , has been terra incognita . Unlike science fiction readers , dime ...
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