Visions of the Future
“by The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. He has been awarded two Hugos and five Nebulas for his fiction, one of only two authors to win a Nebula in every category. He has served on political and scientific action committees and has advised Microsoft, the U.S. Army, the CIA, Sandia National Laboratories, Homeland Security, Google, and other groups and agencies.
The novelette below has also been credited as being the first account of nanotechnology in science fiction and won the Hugo an...d Nebula awards. It was later expanded into the book Blood Music available at http://amzn.to/1GX0j34.
There is a principle in nature I don’t think anyone has pointed out before. Each hour, a myriad of trillions of little live things—bacteria, microbes, “animalcules”—are born and die, not counting for much except in the bulk of their existence and the accumulation of their tiny effects. They do not perceive deeply. They do not suffer much. A hundred billion, dying, would not begin to have the same importance as a single human death.MoreLess
The novelette below has also been credited as being the first account of nanotechnology in science fiction and won the Hugo an...d Nebula awards. It was later expanded into the book Blood Music available at http://amzn.to/1GX0j34.
There is a principle in nature I don’t think anyone has pointed out before. Each hour, a myriad of trillions of little live things—bacteria, microbes, “animalcules”—are born and die, not counting for much except in the bulk of their existence and the accumulation of their tiny effects. They do not perceive deeply. They do not suffer much. A hundred billion, dying, would not begin to have the same importance as a single human death.MoreLess
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