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Where is Innensborg located?
Austria
Ganymede
Jupiter
Mars

What is the name of the society in which John Strasheim lives?
The Immunity
The Mycosystem
The Response
The Bloom

Which of the following is not an important element in Wil McCarthy's fiction?
myth
technological change
Really Cool Ideas
toast

Where was Wil McCarthy born?
Lakewood, CO
Princeton, NJ
Sudbury, MA
Denver, CO

The experimental hull designed to protect against blooms is called
zee-spec
paraphage
ladderdown
t-balance

The author of Innensborg and the Fear of Failure is
Holger Sanchez Mach
Wil McCarthy
Vaclav Lottick
John Strasheim

The streets of Innenborg are paved with
good intentions
asphalt
gold
steel

In addition to writing science fiction, Wil McCarthy
works on the Human Genome Project
designs satellite orbits
designs computer software
conducts particle research

The behavior of the Mycosystem can best be characterized as
emergent
random
disgusting
rambunctious

The name of the ship to be piloted Earthward is
The Louis Pasteur
The James Watson
The Enterprise
The Jonas Salk

The major weakness of mycora is
cold
heat
solar wind
moisture

The Game of Life was invented by
John Strasheim
Wil McCarthy
Parker Brothers
John Conway

The man-made, self-replicating organisms that threaten to destroy human life are called
mycora
bureaucrats
phages
blooms

Zee-specs function as
computers and communication devices
communication devices
computers, VR interfaces, and communications devices
virtual reality interfaces

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