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Vinge's and from
* In Vernor Vinge's 1972 short story " Long Shot ", the story of an attempt at embryo space colonization is told from the point of view of the artificial intelligence bearing the embryo through interstellar space.

Vinge's and other
Concern about the rapid pace of technological change crystallized around the concept of the technological singularity, popularized by Vernor Vinge's novel Marooned in Realtime and then taken up by other authors.

Vinge's and .
Vinge's novel, A Deepness in the Sky ( 1999 ), is a prequel to A Fire Upon the Deep set 20, 000 years earlier and featuring Pham Nuwen.
Vinge's Children of the Sky, " a near-term sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep ", set ten years later, was released in October 2011.
Vinge's former wife, Joan D. Vinge, has also written stories in the Zones of Thought universe, based on his notes.
" Other important predecessors include Alfred Bester's two most celebrated novels, The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination, as well as Vernor Vinge's novella True Names.
Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space series, Peter F. Hamilton's Void, Night's Dawn and Pandora's Star series, and Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky are newer examples of this genre.
Vernor Vinge's True Names, published in 1981, imagines a virtual world which is probably the first to represent a metaverse.
The poem was referenced in Vernor Vinge's hard science fiction novel A Fire Upon the Deep.
From Joan D. Vinge's The Snow Queen.
* The Snow Queen: The fable inspired Joan D. Vinge's science-fantasy novel which added interstellar travel, sea-dwelling sentient mammals, and a galaxy-wide conspiracy to the basic love story.
* Manhattan features in Vernor Vinge's 1985 science-fiction novella The Ungoverned.
The small size of Usenet in its youthful days, and Spencer's early involvement, made him a well-recognised participant ; this is commemorated in Vernor Vinge's 1992 novel A Fire Upon the Deep.
In Vernor Vinge's book Marooned in Realtime, flying personal autons, autonomous robotic devices, serve the " High-Techs " as bodyguards or sensory enhancement.
This " something else " is the sum of all human knowledge, a concept similar to Vernor Vinge's technological singularity.
* Canberra, a fictional planet mentioned in Vernor Vinge's science fiction books.
Vernor Vinge's short story " The Ungoverned " depicts anarcho-capitalists defending against an invading government.
Example contract corporations in this story include Big Al's Protection Racket ( a police service ) and Justice, Inc. Anarcho-capitalism is also discussed in Vinge's novels The Peace War and Marooned in Realtime, which both occur in the same literary milieu as " The Ungoverned ".
Vinge's more recent novel A Deepness in the Sky involves a stateless nonhuman society.
A more limited form of stasis field is the " bobble ", found in Vernor Vinge's Peace Authority setting.

characters and speculate
If this were true, it would make Christa and Scarface the only two characters that existed in both TV series, as many fans speculate Scarface and Grumpy are one in the same.
Five months later, both characters in the show were killed in an episode called " Two for the Road ", leading some critics to speculate that it was punishment for their arrests.
" In Roald Dahl's book Going Solo, he and several other characters speculate on how nice it would be to own a zorse, although they admit it would be difficult to train.
Other characters occasionally speculate on the pair's relationship.
Other characters occasionally speculate on the pair's relationship.
Several characters speculate that someone higher up within the Empire may be engineering the elimination of various people who were loyal to the late Emperor.
Balzac's inspiration for the characters of Hector and Adeline remain unclear, but several critics have been eager to speculate.
In another scene, two characters have a conversation in which they speculate about the fates of other characters in the drama.
The characters are all plagued by some form of guilt or another, particularly in reference to the atomic bomb, and they are trapped in this world, doomed to forever speculate on that evening in Copenhagen in 1941 to determine how the world might have been changed.
The historian points out Juan Antonio Monet as responsible of the agreement: " the main characters kept a deep silence pact and, therefore, we can only speculate, although with little risk of being wrong " ( Page 254 ).
Jeff Zaleski was mixed in his review for Publishers Weekly saying that " a variety of characters speculate on the simpler aspects of Darwinian theory, but somewhat disappointingly they all reach the same conclusion.

characters and Spiders
Known as The Hype, the band members created characters for themselves and wore elaborate costumes that prefigured the glam style of The Spiders From Mars.
More than just artistic pseudonyms, the personae are independent characters used in the artist's shows and albums ( in this example, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars and Station to Station ).

characters and descend
These 20 novels contain over 300 major characters, who descend from the two family lines of the Rougons and Macquarts and who are related.
The shows draw characters from popular culture and has them descend upon the Queen's Campus.
Crome Yellow is in the tradition of the English country house novel, as practiced most notably by Thomas Love Peacock, in which a diverse group of characters descend upon an estate to leech off the host.
* Although it is often suggested that Jules Verne used the idea of a partially hollow Earth in his 1864 novel, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, his characters actually descend only 87 miles beneath the surface where they find an underground sea occupying a cavern roughly the size of Europe.

characters and from
Instead, the audience can sit back at ease and, from the perspective of an enlightened time which no longer believes in such things, enjoy the dead seriousness with which the characters in the play take the witches and devils which are under discussion.
All 128 ASCII characters, including non-printable characters ( represented by their abbreviations ). The 95 ASCII graphic characters are numbered from 20 < sub > hexadecimal | hex </ sub > to 7E < sub > hexadecimal | hex </ sub > ( decimal 32 to 126 ).
Before ASCII was developed, the encodings in use included 26 alphabetic characters, 10 numerical digits, and from 11 to 25 special graphic symbols.
Locating the lowercase letters in columns 6 and 7 caused the characters to differ in bit pattern from the upper case by a single bit, which simplified case-insensitive character matching and the construction of keyboards and printers.
" American shot " is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, " plan américain " and refers to a medium-long (" knee ") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera.
The characters in this book in particular are also based on archaeologists Christie knew from her personal experiences on excavations sites.
The characters in the book, ranging from doctors to vacationers to fugitives, all help to show the effects the plague has on a populace.
The theme of exile and separation is embodied in two characters, Rieux and Rambert, both of whom are separated from the women they love.
The adaptions are notable for changing the plots and characters of the original books ( e. g., incorporating lesbian affairs, changing killer identities, renaming or removing significant characters, and even using stories from other books in which Miss Marple did not originally feature ).
Her daughter, born from her head as she was from Zeus's, demigod Annabeth Chase is one of the principal characters.
The original 256-page game book was published in 1991 by Phage Press, covering material from the first five novels ( the " Corwin Cycle ") and some details-sorcery and the Logrus-from the remaining five novels ( the " Merlin Cycle "), in order to allow players to roleplay characters from the Courts of Chaos.
It is assumed that players will portray the children of the main characters from the books-the ruling family of Amber, known as the Elder Amberites-or a resident of the Courts.
However, since some feel that being the children of the main characters is too limiting, it is fairly common to either start with King Oberon's death before the book begins and roleplay the Elder Amberites as they vie for the throne ; or to populate Amber from scratch with a different set of Elder Amberites.
* Wendelin discovers a compound of the initial letters, amounting to 365 in numerical value, of four Hebrew and three Greek words, all written with Greek characters: ab, ben, rouach, hakadōs ; sōtēria apo xylou (“ Father, Son, Spirit, holy ; salvation from the cross ”).
Agathon introduced certain innovations into the Greek theater: Aristotle tells us in the Poetics that the characters and plot of his Anthos were original and not, following Athenian dramatic orthodoxy, borrowed from mythological subjects.
* Ajax ( comics ), the name of two fictional characters from the Marvel Universe
ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable ( from a total of 128 ) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters ( beyond the 128 characters of standard 7-bit ASCII

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