Fine Structure

by qntm

"Ambient neutrality

'I could have done that'

buy a more expensive broadband package."

tines

superscience.

coma fantasy,

a Briton

Eka.

Living inside the law is comfy. There are nice people here.

favela.

Use the library.

archaeotechnology

Quantum physics often has this effect, even on its close friends.

Science is the opposite of belief.

"Where I come from we have five dimensions of time. It's complicated."

you don't get to be the world's most powerful country by letting people walk away with military secrets.

"The Script has changed again,"

She was late, and drunk, and underage.

"I tried fighting crime.

The dream was a rough approximation to the reality.

I tried to do something positive for science, and science doesn't seem to be smart enough to deal with what I can do, so forget 'em."

Paul Klick killed eight hundred and ninety-nine thousand people with a single device which he built with his own two hands.

Seph is dating one.

infolectrical hypersystem

vigintillionth

The universe is like a spiral.

Trawsfynydd,

MS Paint diagrams

femtoassembler.

"Become a computer..."

the ability to stop drifting off into some imaginary science fiction future

hydrogen femtoassemblers

insomniac,

Outside Context Offense.

memetic weapons.

make real things happen just by delivering a sufficiently

Paul Klick

frieze.

Klick Device.

cyberpunk is bunk.

Science City.

Noct, the Far Star,

Umbra,

incompetent as Outback explorers

all a sentient species can really hope to achieve,