> Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 01:17:32 +1300
> To: n-sf@lucifer.com
> From: "Morgan L. Owens" <packrat@nznet.gen.nz>
> Subject: A suggested addition to the NanoSFBib
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> As far as I am aware, the earliest novel to feature use of carbon
> monofilament (though that term is not used, and probably didn't exist at
> the time) is Arthur C. Clarke's _The Fountains of Paradise_ (1979). The
> phrase itself is not used, "hyperfilament" is, and more specifically
> "continuous pseudo-one-dimensional diamond crystal".
>
> No details of its construction are gone into - except that it has to be
> made in free fall - but it surely qualifies as nanoscale engineering, even
>
> if it is only a static structure.
>
> Since it's introduced in the novel as a plot device to make the whole
> story
> work, I'd say it rates 3 1/2 stars (give or take an epsilon).
>
> Morgan L. Owens
> "...the Tower weighed five times ten to the fifteen carats."
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