http://ask.metafilter.com/226146/Scifi-books-with-nanochips-from-the-80s90s/ Comments on Ask MetaFilter post Sci-fi books with nanochips from the 80s/90s Sun, 07 Oct 2012 03:33:21 -0800 Sun, 07 Oct 2012 11:03:08 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/226146/Scifi-books-with-nanochips-from-the-80s90s [book-filter] Need help tracking down a sci-fi novel(s) read in the late 80's or 90's containing special abilities provided by nanochips. <br /><br /> Asking for a friend! <br> There were a series of 2 or 3 (more?) by the same author.<br> <br> Possible plot points: injecting nanochips into people to give them special abilities; on the run using tiny supercomputers that needed to be connected to a tap of running water to keep them cool (there may have been biological based computers as well?); main character wearing a thermally sealed suit so that he could bypass infrared security systems but it had a limited life as the heat absorption built up and would eventually have to vent steam out the back; in the last book i read there was a spaceship to Jupiter to communicate with gaseous lifeforms floating in the atmosphere there. <br> <br> Hope that's enough clues to start the hunt... post:ask.metafilter.com,2012:site.226146 Sun, 07 Oct 2012 03:33:21 -0800 eloeth-starr book sciencefiction fiction http://ask.metafilter.com/226146/Scifi-books-with-nanochips-from-the-80s90s#3272688 Haven't read the series but Peter F. Hamilton's Greg Mandel trilogy is nanotech SciFi whose 3rd book involves the main characters converging "on an asteroid including a dangerous extraterrestrial from Jupiter's rings." comment:ask.metafilter.com,2012:site.226146-3272688 Sun, 07 Oct 2012 11:03:08 -0800 skywhite