mimetic

• These accomplished stories run the gamut from pure SF to gothic to near-mimetic. —  Asimov'sSF,July2008
• Nevins's remit is a wide one: not all of the works he chooses to discuss feature actual non-mimetic incidents. —  Asimov'sSF,January2007
• I think you bruised my shin Nants were bio-mimetic self-reproducing nanomachines being developed in the Nantel labs--for several years now there'd been news-stories about nants having a big future in medical apps. —  Asimov's SF, June2006
• The lives of the Ledicker père et fils , their relatives and lovers and hangers-on, would be fit material for a mimetic Westlake novel—were it not for the fact that one exhibit in the sleazy Ledicker sideshow is a crashed alien spaceship with inhabitants still alive, and that the family is also under observation by—and interference from—a secret subterranean race of dwarves. —  Asimov'sSF,September2007
• "High" mimetic (the term refers to that vertical scale, and again, is not supposed to imply virtue) has characters greater than humans in degree but not surroundings - so they're leaders of men, basically. —  Anime Nano!

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