{"id":76,"date":"2015-07-18T23:49:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T23:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2015-07-18T23:49:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T23:49:08","slug":"mathematics-in-sci-fi-a-fire-upon-the-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Mathematics in Sci-fi &#8211; A Fire Upon The Deep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spoiler? &#8230; In <em>A Fire Upon The Deep<\/em> Vernor Vinge has created a race of aliens unlike any others I can remember.\u00a0 The individuals are small packs of dogs or wolves with shared minds.\u00a0 Without going into many of the other interesting aspects of this creation, I found one that, if not exactly mathematics in sci-fi, is a unique application of computer science theory.\u00a0 Vinge has an antagonist experimenting with the network architectures of these packs\/individuals in a very mad-scientist kind of way.\u00a0 With certain techniques of biological and behavioral manipulation he constructs ring and star network topologies out of the alien minds.\u00a0 This is definitely not the Borg, or even the Buggers of <em>Ender\u2019s Game<\/em>.\u00a0 I can\u2019t wait to read what he does with this concept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spoiler? &#8230; In A Fire Upon The Deep Vernor Vinge has created a race of aliens unlike any others I can remember.\u00a0 The individuals are small packs of dogs or wolves with shared minds.\u00a0 Without going into many of the other interesting aspects of this creation, I found one that, if not exactly mathematics in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}