nanos

The cartoon characters are presented as "nanos" you must find (usually by beating their evil clone) and that can then be summoned to aid you in combat.

The Industry Standard - Comments

The cartoon characters are presented as "nanos" you must find (usually by beating their evil clone) and that can then be summoned to aid you in combat.

The Industry Standard - Comments

The cartoon characters are presented as "nanos" you must find (usually by beating their evil clone) and that can then be summoned to aid you in combat.

The Industry Standard - Comments

The cartoon characters are presented as "nanos" you must find (usually by beating their evil clone) and that can then be summoned to aid you in combat.

The Industry Standard - Comments

Some things, like nanos, are time-honoured sci fi traditions.

43. Bogus to Bubbly: An Insider's Guide to the World of Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Want a new house, the nanos would scoop up the raw materials and construct it for you.

A Taste For Music

In the near future Kayla is a chameleon, a person who has nanos injected into her to record the experiences for others.

IROSF

They are making more nanos and building a huge machine powerful enough to cross the dimensional barrier.

A Taste For Music

And even if she doesn't hand them over she will lose this week's worth of memories when the nanos fade.

IROSF

Small-minded Junius the merchant wanted swifter passage, faster-than-light commerce between the worlds: the spices, the textiles, the nanos, the minerals — the great exchange dancing between planets at the speed of thought, at his beck and at his call.

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