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Uh. Just yesterday I was thinking about his "Blood Music"[1] when reading the thread on genomics[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Music_(novel) https

• BMc2020 4y ago
  "It's not paper." Gogarty said. He dipped it in his tea cup. The letter did not absorb, nor did it drip upon removal. He held it in both hands and made a vigorous tearing motion. Though he carried the motion through, the letter remained in one piece, in one hand, having passed through the other hand in some unobvious fashion. "Care to read it again?"
• hotpotamus 4y ago
  I forgot "Blood Music" was one of his. That along with "Press Enter" by John Varley are the two sci-fi stories that really freaked me out as a kid. The idea of having your body controlled and then rebuilt at the cellular/molecular level for the purposes of some emergent intelligence that arose from nanobots really got me.
  • wrp 4y ago
    Although the nanotech is indicated by the title and takes up much of the story, he leads the focus toward quantum physics. Another physicist/novelist, John G. Cramer, commented on the Blood Music in a popular article on quantum reality. (https://www.npl.washington.edu/av/altvw140.html https://www.npl.washington.edu/av/altvw140.html)