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Bolo universe : The Bolo stories inspired the board game Ogre, whose creators originally intended to license the stories. For cost reasons this did not occur and a different background was invented for the game, with its titular tank deliberately being made self-unaware in order to differentiate it. |
Bolo universe : Bolo series from Baen Books |
Boten Anna : "Boten Anna" ("Anna the Bot") is a song by Swedish musician Basshunter, from his first studio album, LOL. Following the single's release in 2006, Basshunter gained popularity in his native Sweden, as well as Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Poland and the Netherlands. The song topped hit charts and, on 3... |
Boten Anna : The Swedish lyrics of "Boten Anna" tell the story of a female Internet Relay Chat user who the vocalist believes is a bot but later finds out to be a beautiful woman, although she will always remain a bot in his eyes. The song is based on an actual experience of Basshunter. At the beginning of 2006 he crea... |
Boten Anna : Basshunter recorded "Boten Anna" in March 2006 in one night over the course of six hours. He made it available on his website for free download. The song has been downloaded 37,000 times in within twenty-four hours. With this success, Basshunter received several proposals from managers and music labels. Sw... |
Boten Anna : Three days were allotted for the production of the music video for "Boten Anna". The music video to the song deliberately plays on double meanings. It shows Basshunter riding a pedal boat in Malmö. Music video features text-based chat system for instant messaging mIRC. |
Boten Anna : An editor from Sundsvalls Tidning compared "Boten Anna" to songs "Hej hej Monika by Nic & the Family and "Axel F" by Crazy Frog. Christopher Lembke from Ystads Allehanda said that "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley is the only good song which can compete with "Boten Anna" for radio listeners' favor this summer. Bry... |
Boten Anna : "Boten Anna" entered Swedish singles chart at number three on 8 June 2006 and peaked in its ninth week at number one. It was certified Platinum and became the fourth single of the year. The song sold 60,000 copies in Sweden. In Denmark "Boten Anna" debuted at number two on 23 June then peaked at number one... |
Boten Anna : CD single (9 May 2006) "Boten Anna" (Radio Mix) – 3:29 "Boten Anna" (Club Mix) – 5:26 CD single (4 September 2006) "Boten Anna" (Radio Edit) – 3:29 "Boten Anna" (Club Remix) – 5:26 "Boten Anna" (DJ Micro Spankin Club Remix) – 5:30 "Boten Anna" (Backslash Fluffy Style Remix) – 4:40 "Boten Anna" (SkillsToPay... |
Boten Anna : An English version of "Boten Anna" titled "Now You're Gone", sung by Sebastian Westwood using unrelated lyrics by DJ Mental Theo's Bazzheadz which was originally released in 2006, became the music to a video by Basshunter with the same title in November 2007. The video and the track were met with world cha... |
Boten Anna : In 2006 company JME Data used "Boten Anna" with different lyrics for their advertisement. An Israeli band called Hovevey Zion (חובבי ציון) spoofed "Boten Anna" with their popular single, "Rotze banot" (רוצה בנות, meaning "I Want Girls"). "Dicke Anna" by Kid Bob was released on 20 April 2007. It charted on ... |
Boten Anna : List of number-one singles of the 2000s (Sweden) List of number-one songs of the 2000s (Denmark) List of number-one singles of 2007 (Finland) List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 2006 |
Boten Anna : Archived version of official website |
Broken Angels (novel) : Broken Angels (2003) is a military science fiction novel by British writer Richard Morgan. It is the sequel to Altered Carbon, and is followed by Woken Furies. |
Broken Angels (novel) : Approximately 30 years after Altered Carbon, Takeshi Kovacs is now serving in Carrera's Wedge, a mercenary organization that joins a war on a distant planet, Sanction IV, fighting against an anti-corporate-government rebel group. Pilot Jan Schneider recruits Kovacs to help him lay claim to a bur... |
Broken Angels (novel) : Writing for The Guardian, Colin Greenland found that Altered Carbon was about fighting against wealth and power. In contrast to the first novel, in which Kovacs was attempting to fight for human value, Greenland finds that "truth and justice ... are rarely the ethos, or the issue" in Broken Ange... |
Broken Angels (novel) : Publishers Weekly wrote that the novel succeeded despite a formulaic structure, calling it a "superior, satisfying cyberpunk noir adventure". Kirkus Reviews wrote that the novel was a good expansion of the worldbuilding which began in the first novel, praising it as "a thrilling cyberpunk action... |
Broken Angels (novel) : Interview with author Richard K. Morgan about writing the trilogy series of Takeshi Kovacs: Altered Carbon, Broken Angels and Woken Furies: Richard K. Morgan: The New King of Cyberpunk Fiction, Written By: Jewels Gallegos Merced 09/19/2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20071222141626/http://jivema... |
Bubblegum Crash : Bubblegum Crash (バブルガムクラッシュ!, Baburugamu Kurasshu!) is a 1991 OVA anime series produced by Artmic and Artland. It is the sequel to the 1987 OVA series Bubblegum Crisis, taking place a year after the series. The Knight Sabers seem to be finished, as each of its members except Nene Romanova have seeming... |
Bubblegum Crash : Bubblegum Crash takes place in 2034, one year after the events of Bubblegum Crisis. The Knight Sabers have broken up, as each of its members have moved on to pursue their own life goals as things seemed to have calmed down. Knight Sabers leader and founder Sylia Stingray has disappeared. The group's n... |
Bubblegum Crash : The characters are similar to those in the Bubblegum Crisis OVA series. Sylia Stingray (シリア・スティングレイ, Shiria Sutingurei) (spelled Silia in Bubblegum Crisis) Sylia is the 22-year-old ringleader of the Knight Sabers. She is a Hafu of British descent. Very calm and cool-headed, she does not show much emot... |
Bubblegum Crash : Critical reception of Bubblegum Crash has been mixed. Both critics and fans consider it to be a downgrade compared to Bubblegum Crisis and its reboot Tokyo 2040. Raphael See of THEM Anime Reviews gave Crash a rating of 3 out of 5 stars, praising the artwork and character development, but criticized th... |
Bubblegum Crash : Bubblegum Crash website Bubblegum Crisis – AIC's official Bubblegum Crisis page (in Japanese) Bubblegum Crash (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia Bubblegum Crash at IMDb |
Bubblegum Crisis : Bubblegum Crisis (Japanese: バブルガムクライシス, Hepburn: Baburugamu Kuraishisu) is a 1987 to 1991 cyberpunk original video animation (OVA) series produced by Youmex and animated by AIC and Artmic. The series involves the adventures of the Knight Sabers, an all-female group of mercenaries who don powered exos... |
Bubblegum Crisis : The series begins in late 2032, seven years after the Second Great Kanto earthquake has split Tokyo geographically and culturally in two and it also forced the United States of America to annex Japan in the legitimate name of keeping the peace and from it descending into anarchy. During the first epi... |
Bubblegum Crisis : The setting displays strong influences from the movies Blade Runner and Streets of Fire. The opening sequence of episode 1 is even modeled on that of the latter film. The humanoid robots known as "boomers" in the series were inspired by several movies, including Replicants from the aforementioned Bla... |
Bubblegum Crisis : The series started with Toshimichi Suzuki's intention to remake the 1982 film Techno Police 21C. In 1985, he met Junji Fujita and the two discussed ideas, and decided to collaborate on what later became Bubblegum Crisis. Kenichi Sonoda acted as character designer, and designed the four female leads. ... |
Bubblegum Crisis : In North America, AnimEigo first released Bubblegum Crisis to VHS and Laserdisc in 1991 in Japanese with English subtitles. The series is notable in that it was one of the few early anime series that were brought over from Japan unedited and subtitled in English. While anime has become much more popu... |
Bubblegum Crisis : Critical reception of Bubblegum Crisis has been generally positive. Raphael See of THEM Anime Reviews gave the series a rating of 4 out of 5 stars, praising the quality of the animation, the soundtrack, and the series' sense of humor. However, he suggested it was held back by a low quality dub, a lac... |
Bubblegum Crisis : Masaki Kajishima and Hiroki Hayashi, who both worked on the Bubblegum Crisis OVAs, cite the show as being the inspiration for their harem series Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki. In an interview with AIC, Hayashi described Bubblegum Crisis as "a pretty gloomy anime. Serious fighting, complicated human relations... |
Bubblegum Crisis : AD Police Files is a three-part original video animation prequel produced by Youmex and animated by Artmic and AIC, released in 1990. It takes place in the original Bubblegum Crisis universe, and is a prequel to the original OVA series. Bubblegum Crash is a sequel to Bubblegum Crisis, released in 199... |
Bubblegum Crisis : AnimEigo's Bubblegum Crisis website Bubblegum Crisis – AIC's official Bubblegum Crisis page (in Japanese) Bubblegum Crisis (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia Bubblegum Crisis at IMDb Ravens Garage: The Technology of BGC |
Caprica : Caprica is a 2010 American science fiction drama television series, which is a prequel spin-off of the 2004–2009 series Battlestar Galactica. Caprica is set 58 years before the main series, and shows how humanity first created the Cylon androids who would later turn against their human masters. Among Caprica'... |
Caprica : Caprica is set before the cataclysmic destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol, focusing on the planet Caprica, the main planet of the Twelve Colonies. Caprica is the governmental seat of the Twelve Colonies, having also become the de facto seat of culture, art, science, and learning; the language of Capri... |
Caprica : Caprica received generally positive reviews. Home Media Magazine's John Latchem wrote that Caprica has "all the same dark overtones and richness of character that fans have come to expect from Galactica." He also wrote that the show "[evokes] a feeling similar to Gattaca in its depiction of a potential near f... |
Caprica : The rights to broadcast the series were picked up by Sky1 in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and Space in Canada. Caprica commenced airing in Australia on free-to-air digital channel 7mate on September 30, 2010. |
Caprica : On April 21, 2009, an uncut and unrated extended version of the pilot was released as a download from online digital media stores and as a complete DVD with commentary, deleted scenes, and video blogs. The first half of the first season ("Season 1.0") was released on DVD in region 1 on October 5, 2010, and th... |
Caprica : Caprica at IMDb Caprica at Battlestar Wiki |
The Causal Angel : The Causal Angel is the third science fiction novel by Hannu Rajaniemi featuring the protagonist Jean le Flambeur. It was published in July 2014 by Gollancz in the UK and by Tor in the US. The novel is the finale of a trilogy. The previous novels in the series are The Quantum Thief (2010) and The Fra... |
The Causal Angel : After the events of The Fractal Prince, Jean le Flambeur and Mieli are separated and their sentient spacecraft Perhonen is destroyed. The two protagonists, each in their own way, struggle to decide where their loyalties lie and how to proceed in the catastrophically altered situation. Meanwhile, the ... |
The Causal Angel : List of characters in the Jean le Flambeur series |
The Causal Angel : Hannu Rajaniemi at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Glossary for The Quantum Thief / The Fractal Prince / Jean le Flambeur, replacing the deleted Wikipedia glossary |
Chariot (comics) : Chariot is a 2021 science fiction comic book limited series created by writer Bryan Edward Hill and artist Priscilla Petraites. It was published by AWA Studios under their Upshot imprint and ran for 5 issues, being collected in trade paperback form in October 2021. |
Chariot (comics) : Hill described the series as his "ode to the neon-righteous sci-fi action stories I’ve always loved"" and "synthwave fever dream". He first came into contact with Petraites in 2015 after seeing a piece of fan art she had created based on the film Blade Runner. The pair largely co-operated on the seri... |
Chariot (comics) : Created in the Cold War, the Chariot is an exotic sports car with a highly advanced computer mainframe capable of digitally receiving a person's consciousness. It is targeted by sisters Gillian and Delia, assassins and thieves who have grown tired of working for various intelligence agencies before s... |
Chariot (comics) : Reviewing the first issue for Bleeding Cool, Hannibal Tabu praised the book's art and style but was more reserved about the characterisation; he felt the second issue was much improved, describing it as "a wildly confectionary delight" and compared the style to that of Patrick Nagel. Dan Grote of Com... |
Chariot (comics) : In July 2021 it was announced that Warner Bros. had purchased the rights to a film version of the story, with Joseph Kosinski attached to direct. |
Chariot (comics) : The series has been collected in a trade paperbacks. == References == |
Chobits : Chobits (Japanese: ちょびっツ, Hepburn: Chobittsu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by the Japanese manga collective Clamp. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine from September 2000 to October 2002, with its chapters collected in eight bound volumes. Chobits ... |
Chobits : The series centers on the life of Hideki Motosuwa, a held-back student attempting to qualify for university by studying at Seki prep school in Tokyo. Besides a girlfriend, he dreams of having a persocom (パソコン): an android used as a personal computer, which is expensive. On his way home one evening, he stumble... |
Chobits : Clamp—a creative team consisting of Satsuki Igarashi, Ageha Ohkawa, Tsubaki Nekoi and Mokona—wrote and illustrated Chobits, which is the first of their manga to be targeted towards older male readers (seinen manga). The idea for Chobits originated from the group's experiences with computers, which would prese... |
Chobits : Reviews have been mixed. Shaenon K. Garrity of Anime News Network criticized the series' description of persocoms as "obedient" and "perfect," writing, "The persocoms are perfect women, stripped clean of everything that makes real women less than perfect servants to men—that is, one might say, everything that... |
Chobits : Lamarre, Thomas (July 2006). "Platonic Sex: Perversion and Shôjo Anime (Part One)". Animation. 1 (1): 45–59. doi:10.1177/1746847706065841. S2CID 193228688. Lamarre, Thomas (March 2007). "Platonic Sex: Perversion and Shôjo Anime (Part Two)". Animation. 2 (1): 9–25. doi:10.1177/1746847706068899. S2CID 62879554. |
Chobits : CLAMP page Tokyopop page Kodansha USA Publishing page: Chobits 20th Anniversary Edition Pioneer/Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc. Chobits English DVD anime website (Archive) TSB official Chobits anime site (in Japanese) Chobits - The Official Anime Website from Funimation Chobits (manga) at Anime News Network's... |
The Chronicle of the Fallers : The Chronicle of the Fallers is a space opera sequence by science fiction author Peter F. Hamilton. Hamilton announced in 2011 that he was developing a new trilogy set in Commonwealth Universe. He later decided to cut the trilogy down to two parts. Cover art for The Abyss Beyond Dreams wa... |
The Chronicle of the Fallers : From the publisher:The planet Bienvenido is in crisis. It has finally escaped the Void, emerging into regular space. But it’s millions of light-years from Commonwealth assistance, and humans are battling the Fallers for control of their world. This rapacious adversary, evolved to destroy ... |
The Chronicle of the Fallers : The Void, created at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy by an ancient alien race, has a different quantum structure from that of a normal space. The Void reacts to conscious thought, but prevents the use of most electric and electronic devices, although most newly arrived equipment functi... |
The Chronicle of the Fallers : On Goodreads, The Abyss Beyond Dreams rates 4.21 out of 5, based on over 13,000 votes. On Goodreads, A Night Without Stars holds a 4.43 out of 5, based on over 9,000 votes. == References == |
Claybourne : Claybourne is a 1998 radio drama in 96 episodes with elements of science fiction, supernatural thriller, and soap opera. The series was produced by Andrew Dubber and Belinda Todd of Pronoun Productions after the production of Ashley's Worlds. |
Claybourne : After a breakup, American Thompson is on holiday from his work for Koestler Industries and arrives in Claybourne. He starts to investigate the death of behavioural psychologist Helen, working for Koestler on a secret project with commercial as well as military applications. He teams up with Mata and Mike o... |
Claybourne : Jim McLarty as Thompson, an American on vaction on New Zealand William Davis as Mata, a Māori kaumātua (elected tribal leader) Angela Bloomfield as Karen, a local bartender Bruce Allpress as Frank Melwayne Edwards as Mike Brenda Kendall as Edith Robert Pollock as Phillip |
Claybourne : The sound was designed by Andrew Dubber and Sean James Donnelly. The music was performed by Victoria Kelly and Joost Langeveld. The show was designed with a story arc spanning a full year in mind, but was cancelled after six months and ending the show on a cliffhanger. In 2006, Dubber sketched what he reme... |
Claybourne : The show aired on the radio station Newstalk ZB four days a week just after 15:00 and with a repeat at 01:00. The show was one of the most popular spoken word programmes on mp3.com. Andrew Dubber later released the work under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC) on Bandcamp as free download around 2006. I... |
Claybourne : Claybourne won "Best Dramatic Production of the Year" at the 1999 New Zealand Radio Awards. |
Claybourne : In her book Revolution in the Echo Chamber: Audio Drama's Past, Present and Future (2019), Leslie Grace McMurtry wrote that Claybourne had many compelling elements: the strong pull of seriality and episodes available in digestible chunks, a seemingly infinite series of cliffhangers, centripetal storytellin... |
Claybourne : Claybourne at bandcamp.com (hosting all 96 episodes) Claybourne at the Internet Archive Claybourne at radio.dieselpunkindustries.com (hosting all 96 episodes) |
Commonwealth Saga : The Commonwealth Saga is a series of science fiction novels by British science fiction writer Peter F. Hamilton. This saga consists of the novels Pandora's Star (2004) and Judas Unchained (2005). Hamilton has also written several books set in the same literary universe. Misspent Youth (2002) takes p... |
Commonwealth Saga : Misspent Youth Void Trilogy The Chronicle of the Fallers |
Commonwealth Saga : Peter F. Hamilton's Website on Pan Macmillan Publisher website Commonwealth Saga series listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Review of Pandora's Star at SFFWorld.com Review of Judas Unchained at SFFWorld.com |
Culture series : The Culture series is a science fiction series written by Scottish author Iain M. Banks and released from 1987 until 2012. The stories centre on The Culture, a utopian, post-scarcity space society of humanoid aliens and advanced superintelligent artificial intelligences living in artificial habitats sp... |
Culture series : The Culture is a society formed by various humanoid species and artificial intelligences about 9,000 years before the events of novels in the series. Since the majority of its biological population can have almost anything they want without the need to work, there is little need for laws or enforcement... |
Culture series : The Culture series comprises nine novels and one short story collection ordered by publication date: |
Culture series : Since the Culture's biological population commonly live as long as 400 years and have no need to work, they face the difficulty of giving meaning to their lives when the Minds and other intelligent machines can do almost anything better than the biological population can. Many try—few successfully—to j... |
Culture series : According to critic Farah Mendelson, the Culture stories are space opera, with certain elements that are free from scientific realism, and Banks uses this freedom extravagantly in order to focus on the human and political aspects of his universe; he rejects the dystopian direction of present-day capita... |
Culture series : Banks has been described as "an incorrigible player of games" with both style and structure – and with the reader. In both the Culture stories and his work outside science fiction, there are two sides to Banks, the "merry chatterer" who brings scenes to life and "the altogether less amiable character" ... |
Culture series : Banks says he conceived the Culture in the 1960s, and that it is a combination of wish fulfilment and a reaction against the predominantly right-wing science fiction produced in the United States. In his opinion, the Culture might be a "great place to live", with no exploitation of people or AIs, and w... |
Culture series : Inversions won the 2004 Italia Science Fiction Award for the Best International Novel. The American edition of Look to Windward was listed by the editors of SF Site as one of the "Best SF and Fantasy Books of 2001" after the UK edition had missed out by just one place the previous year. Use of Weapons ... |
The Culture : The Culture is a fictional interstellar post-scarcity civilisation or society created by the Scottish writer Iain Banks and features in a number of his space opera novels and works of short fiction, collectively called the Culture series. In the series, the Culture is composed primarily of sentient beings... |
The Culture : The Culture is characterized as being a post-scarcity society, having overcome most physical constraints on life and being an egalitarian, stable society without the use of any form of force or compulsion, except where necessary to protect others. That being said, some citizens, including the extremely po... |
The Culture : In this fictional universe, the Culture exists concurrently with human society on Earth. The time frame for the published Culture stories is from 1267 CE to roughly 2970 CE, with Earth being contacted around 2100 CE, though the Culture had covertly visited the planet in the 1970s in The State of the Art. ... |
The Culture : Much of the Culture's population lives on orbitals, vast artificial worlds that can accommodate billions of people. Others travel the galaxy in huge space ships such as General Systems Vehicles (GSVs) that can accommodate hundreds of millions of people. Almost no Culture citizens are described as living o... |
The Culture : The Culture, living mostly on massive spaceships and in artificial habitats, and also feeling no need for conquest in the typical sense of the word, possesses no borders. Its sphere of influence is better defined by the (current) concentration of Culture ships and habitats as well as the measure of effect... |
The Culture : The inner workings of The Culture are not especially described in detail though it is shown that the society is populated by an empowered, educated and augmented citizenry in a direct democracy or highly democratic and transparent system of self-governance. In comparisons to the real world, intended or no... |
The Culture : The Culture stories are largely about problems and paradoxes that confront liberal societies. The Culture itself is an "ideal-typical" liberal society; that is, as pure an example as one can reasonably imagine. It is highly egalitarian; the liberty of the individual is its most important value; and all ac... |
The Culture : When asked in Wired magazine (June 1996) whether mankind's fate depends on having intelligent machines running things, as in the Culture, Banks replied: Not entirely, no. I think the first point to make about the Culture is, I'm just making it up as I go along. It doesn't exist and I don't delude myself t... |
Den-noh Coil : Den-noh Coil (Japanese: 電脳コイル, Hepburn: Dennō Koiru, lit. Cyber Coil), also known as Coil – A Circle of Children; is a Japanese science fiction anime television series produced by Madhouse. The series is created, directed and written by Mitsuo Iso, it aired for 26 episodes in Japan on NHK Educational TV ... |
Den-noh Coil : The year is 2026, and it has been 11 years since the "Den-noh Megane" (cyber glasses), a wearable computer in the form of glasses that uses AR technology, became widespread throughout the world. The glasses allow information from the Den-noh world to be superimposed on and manipulated in the real world. ... |
Den-noh Coil : Yuko Okonogi (小此木 優子, Okonogi Yūko) Voiced by: Fumiko Orikasa (Japanese); Hilary Haag (English) Nicknamed Yasako, which is another reading of 優子 meaning "gentle girl". With her sister Kyoko and her two parents, Yasako moves to the city of Daikoku to live with her grandmother, Megabā. Yasako is a sweet an... |
Den-noh Coil : Den-noh Coil is an anime about children growing up in the near future, when semi-immersive augmented reality (AR) technology has just begun to enter the mainstream. It deals with various advanced and new technologies of the future that were not well known at the time of its broadcast, such as wearable co... |
Den-noh Coil : Den-noh Coil (電脳コイル, Dennō Koiru, lit. Cyber Coil) This is a phenomenon of unknown cause in which the Den-noh body separates from the real body when certain conditions are met. When the Den-noh body separates, the real body loses consciousness and appears as a pitch-black shadow through the glasses, with... |
Den-noh Coil : THEM Anime Reviews gave it a 5 out of 5 stars calling it "The animation is consistently excellent throughout, and the music is great. The characters are also well constructed and worth caring for. The world of Den-noh Coil is convincing and realistic. The story has a very complex puzzle at its heart, and... |
Den-noh Coil : "The Children's Night", Mitsuo Iso's episode director debut Microsoft HoloLens Apple Vision Pro visionOS Android XR Spatial computing |
Den-noh Coil : Official website (in Japanese) Den-noh Coil at NHK website (in Japanese) Den-noh Coil (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia Den-noh Coil at IMDb |
Diaspora (novel) : Diaspora is a hard science fiction novel by the Australian writer Greg Egan which first appeared in print in 1997. It originated as the short story "Wang's Carpets" which originally appeared in the Greg Bear-edited anthology New Legends (Legend, London, 1995). The story appears as a chapter of the no... |
Diaspora (novel) : An appended glossary explains many of the specialist terms in the novel. Egan invents several new theories of physics, beginning with Kozuch Theory, the dominant physics paradigm for nearly nine hundred years before the beginning of the novel. Kozuch Theory treats elementary particles as semi-point-l... |
Diaspora (novel) : Diaspora begins with a description of "orphanogenesis", the birthing of a citizen without any ancestors (the majority of citizens either descend from fleshers uploaded at some point or are the product of one or many parents who "custom-order" descendants with some combination of their traits), and th... |
Diaspora (novel) : Yatima appears as an Orphan, a personality formed by the Konishi polis conceptory rather than by a parent or parents. A central character in the novel, ve usually takes the iconic form of an African herdsman in a purple robe. Yatima exhibits a deep love of mathematics and a desire to explore the unkn... |
Diaspora (novel) : Humanity began transferring itself into the polises (the Introdus) in the late 21st century UT, when the technology became feasible to effect the nanoscale transmutation of human brains into functionally indistinguishable molecular computer systems. Many polises exist, though the novel mentions only ... |
Diaspora (novel) : For internal dating and time standards the polises use CST (Coalition Standard Time), measured in tau elapsed since the adoption of the system on January 1, 2065 (UT). The novel begins at CST date 23 387 025 000 000. CST defines one tau as the amount of time in which a polis citizen can experience th... |
Diaspora (novel) : Permutation City Simulated reality "The Planck Dive" |
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