Vacuum Flowers
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Vacuum Flowers is a science fiction novel by American writer Michael Swanwick, published in 1987. It is an early example of the cyberpunk genre, and features one of the earliest uses of the concept of
First edition (publ. Arbor House)
Dyson tree
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A Dyson tree is a hypothetical genetically engineered plant capable of growing inside a comet, suggested by the physicist Freeman Dyson. Plants may be able to produce a breathable atmosphere within th
Vacuum Flowers
…uneasy alliance with The Comprise, the hive mind which rules Earth, and encounter Dysonworlders, who live on genetically engineered artificial comets (Dyson trees). Despite the lack of cyberware in this book, Chris Hockabout called it "strangely cyberpunk" and noted that "the lack of any real cyberware does little…
Freeman Dyson in 2005