nants

Through the course of the book, we see two separate singularities occur through the development of nanotechnology – one event destroys everything, replacing it with nanomachines referred to as nants and creating a virtual earth.

Archive 2007-10-01 Neth 2007

Through the course of the book, we see two separate singularities occur through the development of nanotechnology – one event destroys everything, replacing it with nanomachines referred to as nants and creating a virtual earth.

Review: Postsingular by Rudy Rucker Neth 2007

However, an autistic child memorizes a long string of numbers that poisons the nants and causes them to reverse themselves (luckily, they're engaged in reversible computation) and put the planet back.

Boing Boing 2007

In Postsingular, a mad scientist creates a race of nants -- nanites -- that digest the planet and turn it into a computational simulation of Earth, called Vearth.

Boing Boing 2007

The poor only have the less of the rem-nants, if visiters or guests come in unexpectedly; and in such case, she says, they shall fare better ano-ther day.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

This is me, hating nants, singing off-key at the top of my lungs, hyper beyond words.

jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2001

She watched as Vassilis, clucking, removed the rem nants of her half-eaten lunch, then settled back in her chair.

The Tycoon's Mistress Craven, Sara 2000

She watched as Vassilis, clucking, removed the rem nants of her half-eaten lunch, then settled back in her chair.

The Tycoon's Mistress Craven, Sara 2000

He left in a flurry of farewell beers, and I spent the whole summer at first tiptoeing and then striding into new responsibilities, and in six swift months shed the last rem nants of boy and grew in confidence and perhaps in ability until I had settled into the person I would be for the rest of my life.

Penalty Francis, Dick 1997

His face grew grimmer as he noted the torn standard of Esh - mir, the lion-flag of Okara and the blood-soaked pen - nants of sorrowing Changshai.

The Bane of The Black Sword Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977