![]() ![]() Like later volumes in the sequence, The Bohr Maker – complexly inhabited by Androids and Avatars and outcasts – presents a powerful cluster of images with which to conceive the planetary future and its possible extensions outwards. ![]() Here a chase thriller story is set into a complexly delineated distant Near Future Earth where orbital centres of civilization are reached by an array of Space Elevators Nanotechnology is strictly controlled, though it inevitably escapes First-World constraints, proliferating into impoverished environments where those who represent or embed it are thought of – and think of themselves – as being possessed by supernatural powers. ![]() (1960- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Spectral Expectations" in Analog for April 1987, and who rapidly established a reputation for swiftly told, shapely, Internet-savvy Hard SF tales set in worlds drenched in Nanotechnologies, much of this work being assembled as Goddesses and Other Stories (coll 2012), "Goddesses" (5 July 2000 Sci Fiction) having won a Nebula award some of this work has also been incorporated into the loose Nanotech Succession sequence beginning with The Bohr Maker ( 1995), which won a Locus Award for best first novel. ![]()
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