Did I read an SF story with a grey goo protagnist?

April 2, 2022 7:42 AM

I'm not sure if read or dreamed this SF short story: told from the viewpoint of grey goo, AKA an Aggressive Hegemonising Swarm Object, in space. There's some kind of internal schism and it splits into two (I think) swarms with different goals. The MC is the goo itself.
posted by signal to Writing & Language (3 answers total)

Not an exact match, but could it be The Things, by Peter Watts?
posted by Tabitha Someday at 10:59 AM on April 2, 2022

Response by poster: It's not, but that's a really good story.
posted by signal at 2:19 PM on April 2, 2022

Without giving too much up, this is a theme later in the incremental browser-based game Universal Paperclips.
posted by the antecedent of that pronoun at 7:07 PM on April 2, 2022