Perhaps the neighbors would be visiting soon.

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Acknowledgments

Chapter 2, “Nant Day,” appeared as “Chu and the Nants” in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, June 2006. This story also appeared in Year’s Best SF 12, edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.

Chapters 3 and 4, “Orphid Night” and “Chu’s Knot,” appeared as a single story, “Postsingular,” in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, September 2006.

Copyright

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

POSTSINGULAR

Copyright © 2007 by Rudy Rucker

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Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
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Tor® is a registered trademark of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rucker, Rudy v. B. (Rudy von Bitter), 1946–

Postsingular / Rudy Rucker.—1st ed.

p. cm.

“A Tom Doherty Associates Book.”

ISBN: 978-1-4668-0487-6

1. Nanotechnology—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3568.U298P67    2007

813'.54—dc22           2007020210