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1990 P. Cook Master of the House in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Sept. 97
The horror Hastings had contracted was a bioengineered nanobot, self-replicating and terribly efficient, which had only one function: to seek out RNA replicators in bone-marrow mitochondria, and change the bonding message for cell-wall elasticityโฆ. The nanobots also had an ingenious dormancy program so that they could hide from macrophages or other nanobots the doctors Upstream used to combat Hastingโs horror. |