In seemingly unconnected episodes drawn from her work as a journalist and her fiction, she examines the micro-culture of California life.

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And when Stephen Hawking announced that micro black holes must exist, science fiction writers enthusiastically wrote stories using them as garbage disposal energy generators, or perfect murder weapons.

BBC: How sci-fi moves with the times

They might sound like the stuff of science fiction, but at their most basic level these medical micro-robots are man-made protein "machines" that produce movement through chemical reactions.

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