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Nanotechnology in Science Fiction - bibliography
Version 1.6
May 10, 1995
anthony@lexis-nexis.com

This is primarily a list of Science Fiction novels & short stories
that are nanotech related.  I have not read everything on this list.
Correction of errors or new additions to the list are welcome, please
send them via email to (anthony@lexis-nexis.com) with the following
Subject: n-in-sf.

Thanks to all who have contributed to this bibliography.


Rating of nanotech content (not implying good/bad)

Four stars  ****     nanotech is the center of the story
Three stars  ***     nanotech is a major component of the story
Two stars     **     nanotech is a minor component of the story

(Nanotech may be explicitly or implicitly stated, or be called by
different names.  People who have read one of the non-fiction books
listed below should have a feel for the general definition of
molecular nanotechnology.)


      Non-Fiction books on nanotechnology

1986  Engines of Creation               K. Eric Drexler

1991  Unbounding the Future             K. Eric Drexler, et al.

1992  Nanosystems - Molecular
      Machinery, Manufacturing,
      and Computation                   K. Eric Drexler

further information can be obtained at http://planchet.rutgers.edu/


			 T  H  E      L  I  S  T

 "Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems
  and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."
						 Isaac Asimov (1920-92)


 Code   (default is Novel)
 ----------------------------
 (C)    collection, anthology
 (N)    novella, novelette

 (b)    biotech pathway - organic molecules, "wet" environment.
 (f)    fantasy
 (h-yy) Hugo award winner - year
 (mm)   molecular manufacturing - machine phase, "dry" environment.
 (si)   Singularity

Author                    Title                        Date,Code,Rating

Anderson K. & Beason D.   Assemblers of Infinity       1993        4
Anderson, Poul            Boat of a Million Years, The 1989        2.4
Anderson, Poul            Harvest of Stars             1993        3
Anderson, Poul            Stars are Also Fire, The     1994
Banks, Iain               Fearsum Endjin               1994        3
Baxter, Stephen           Ring                         1994        2
Baxter, Stephen           Timelike Infinity            1993        2
Bear, Greg                Anvil of Stars               1992        3
Bear, Greg                Blood Music                  1985 (b)    3.5
Bear, Greg                Forge of God, The            1987        3
Bear, Greg                Heads                        1990        2
Bear, Greg                Moving Mars                  1993        2
Bear, Greg                Queen of Angels              1990        3
Benford, Gregory          Furious Gulf                 1994
Benford, Gregory          Great Sky River              1987        2
Benford, Gregory          Tides of Light               1989        2
Bishop, Michael           Secret Ascension, The        1987        2
Bova, Ben                 Voyagers 3: Star Brothers    1990        3.5
Brenner, Mayer Alan       Spell of Apocalypse          1994 (f)
Brin, David               Earth                        1990        2
Brunner, John             Maze of Stars, A             1991        3
Bull, Emma                Falcon                       1989        2
Calder, Richard           Dead Girls                   1995
Carver, Jeffery           From a Changeling Star       1988        2
Carver, Jeffery           Down the Stream of Stars     1990        2
Chalker, Jack L.          Four Lords of the Diamond                2.5
Chalker, Jack L.          Web of the Chozen, The       1978        4
Clarke, Arthur C.         Hammer of God, The           1993        2
Egan, Greg                Quarantine                   1992        3.5
Feeley, Gregory           Oxygen Barons, The           1990        3
Flynn, Michael            Nanotech Chronicles, The     1991 (C)    4
Frankowski, Leo           Copernick's Rebellion             (b)    3.5
Gibson, William           Mona Lisa Overdrive          1988        1.9
Gibson, William           Virtual Light                1993        2
Goonan, Kathleen Ann      Queen City Jazz              1994        4
Harrison H. & Minsky M.   Turing Option, The           1992        2.5
Jennings, Phillip C.      Bug Life Chronicles          1989        3
Keith, William H.         Warstrider                   1993        3.5
Keith, William H.         Warstrider: Rebellion        1993        3.5
Keith, William H.         Warstrider: Jackers          1994        3.5
Kilian, Crawford          Gryphon                      1989        3
Kress, Nancy              Beggars and Choosers         1994
Kube-McDowell,Michael P.  Exile                        1992        2
McAuley, Paul J.          Red Dust                     1994
McDonald, Ian             Terminal Cafe                1994
Nagata, Linda             Bohr Maker, The              1995
Noon, Jeff                Vurt                         1995
Press, Paul               Human Error                  1985 (b)    3.5
Robinson, Kim Stanley     Green Mars                   1994 (h94)  2
Robinson, Kim Stanley     Red Mars                     1992        2
Robinson, Spider/Jeanne   Starmind                     1995
Ryman,Geoff               Child Garden, The            1990
Smith, L. Neil            Venus Belt, The                          3
Stephenson, Neal          Diamond Age, The             1995 (mm)   4
Stiegler, Marc            Gentle Seduction, The                    4
Swanwick, Michael         Stations of the Tide         1991        2.5
Varley, John              Steel Beach                  1992        2.8
Vinge, Joan               Snow Queen, The              1980 (h81)  2.5
Vinge, Joan               Summer Queen, The            1991        2.5
Vinge, Vernor             Fire Upon the Deep, A        1992 (h93)  3
Vinge, Vernor             Marooned in Realtime         1986 (si)   2
Vinge, Vernor             Peace War, The               1984        2.2
Williams, Walter Jon      Aristoi                      1992 (mm)   4
Wilson, Robert Charles    Bridge of Years, A           1991        2
Wilson, Robert Charles    Harvest, The                 1993        3.2


 Honorable Mention  (predates modern nanotech concepts)

1942 ...... Waldo ................... Robert A. Heinlein
1954 ...... Autofac ................. Phillip K. Dick
1966 ...... The Mechanic ............ Hal Clement


 Short Stories or Serials
 YBSF = Years Best Science Fiction

Burns, Stephen L.         Down Under Crater Billy      1995        3
			  Analog, January

Feeley, Gregory           Mind's Place, The            1993        3
			  (C) Full Spectrum 4

Kress, Nancy              Margin of Error              1995        ?
			  (C) YBSF #12

Niven, Larry              Procrustes                   1994        3.5
			  (C) Crashlander

Swanwick, Michael         Griffin's Egg                1993        2.5
			  (C) YBSF #10




 Comic Books

 (CB)   paper comic book
 (ECB)  electronic comic book

Milestone Comics/DC       Xombi                             (CB)   3

Napier, Anthony S.        NanoWars Ch.1: Breakthrough       (ECB)  4
available from:
ftp://nanothinc.com/pub/nanoworld/nanofun/nanowars (download)
http://www.erinet.com/prass/nanowars/1nw01_37.html (view on www)
Check this out, and email me comments!  Thanks.


 Electronic Text on the Internet

The Journal Entries of Kennet Shardik                              2
available from:
http://halcyon.com/elf/elf_sternberg.html


 Motion Picture & TV

Babylon 5 pilot: (mentioned at end of show)

Star Trek TNG: The "nanite" episode, Evolution.
	       Brief mention in various other episodes.

Terminator 2:  Although the "n" word is not used, general consensus
	       is that nanotechnology is the only realistic way the
	       T-1000 could be implemented.  James Cameron should
	       take note of this when doing T3.


 Some games that reference nanotech...

Cybergeneration   RPG board game
SimEarth          Commercial Software, PC, MAC
Outpost           Commercial Software, PC


 Lem, Stanislaw   1921-, Polish writer.

Wow, have I got a lot of email on this guy.
However, there seems to be a bit of confusion over which of his
books have been translated into English, and, if the subject matter
is plain biology, micro machine or "nano a la Drexler".
One book that has been mentioned is Peace on Earth, C1994.


 Rumored to be coming soon...

Nanothinc presents ... NanoFi Digest
A forum for nanotechnology related Science Fiction

Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, est. pub date 1995

World Wide Web

This list can be accessed from the Nanotechnology Page at
http://skyler.arc.ab.ca/~morgan/Nano.shtml
The Web version contains links to book reviews.
Thanks to Sean Morgan morgan@skyler.arc.ab.ca for setting this up.

Also...

WWW location, with all versions available.
http://www.erinet.com/prass/nanowars/ninsf/n_in_sf.html

The Science Fiction Resource Guide at
ftp://gandalf.rutgers.edu/pub/sfl/sf-resource.guide.html
Thanks to Gareth.Rees@cl.cam.ac.uk

The Speculative Fiction Clearing House at
http://thule.mt.cs.cmu.edu:8001/sf-clearing-house/

The Rutgers SF-Lovers archive (flatfile) at
ftp://gandalf.rutgers.edu/pub/sfl/nanotechnology-in-sf.txt
Thanks to Saul Jaffe sf-lovers-request@gandalf.rutgers.edu


FYI : SF Book Review WWW page

http://varg.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf-texts/books/

 Dropped from list...

Bova, Ben                 Voyagers 1
Bova, Ben                 Voyagers 2: The Alien Within
Haldeman, Joe             Worlds Enough, and Time
Smith, L. Neil            Probability Broach, The

Anthony S. Napier
LEXIS-NEXIS, A division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
Dayton, Ohio
anthony@lexis-nexis.com
