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* [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever]] -- Actually, it's just a script that makes her [[Digital Avatar]] look huge.
* [[Brain Uploading]] -- Mac has made billions of duplicates of his own brain pattern. These are in the process of recovering the brain patterns of everyone who's died.
* [[Cold Sleep, Cold Future]] -- Waking up in the Necroverse for the first time is similar.
* [[Cool Code of Source]] -- The Necroverse scripting utilities.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] -- the Plutarchs. How corrupt were they? People don't wear neckties any more. The necktie has become a symbol of irredeemable evil, like the swastika.
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* [[Mary Suetopia]] -- The Mac Collective. They're more plot device than characters.
* [[Me's a Crowd]] -- Mac duplicated his own mind, downloading some of the copies into [[Artificial Human]] bodies, to create the Mac Collective. How big a crowd? More than nine billion, approximately half corporeal, half virtual.
* [[Meta Fiction]] -- The main theme is how narratives shape people's expectations, and what happens when experience doesn't match those expectations. That's why there's a bunch of crap about "neuroviruses" (meme complexes) and [
* [[Mind Over Manners]] -- Though the story uses technology rather than psychic powers, many of the ethical concerns are the same. Information relating to a brain upload is confidential, available even to Mac dupes only on a need-to-know basis. It's also a bit of an issue that the Mac Collective doesn't exactly have permission to scan people's past histories and upload their brain patterns.
* [[Mind Reading]] -- Necropsychologists can literally read your mind by looking your brain emulation program.
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* [[There Are No Psychologists]] -- Averted. The necropsychologists make sure the brain emulations of the dead are stable.
* [[Universe Chronology]] -- of events 2011-2046 [http://richardsindexwiki.pbworks.com/DWTimeline here]
* [[The Virus]] -- neuroviruses may be a metaphor for the spread of [
* [[We Have Reserves]] -- Mac defeated his enemies by throwing hordes of duplicates at them.
* [[The Wiki Rule]] -- I keep worldbuilding notes on my own personal wiki, [http://richardsindexwiki.pbworks.com/Deadworld here]. ("Deadworld" was the original working title.)
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