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* The Darwinists in Scott Westerfeld's ''[[Leviathan]]'' trilogy.
* In [[Cordwainer Smith]]'s novelette "[[Scanners Live in Vain]]" (written pre-Sputnik), outer space is suffused with a strange radiation that causes horrible pain to spaceship occupants. The original solution was to sever the nerves of the astronauts, which turned them into unfeeling creatures both physically and metaphorically. The eventual, more workable solution was to surround yourself with other living organisms, who would absorb the radiation. They built ''radiation shielding'' out of ''oysters''.
* In [[David Weber]] and Linda Evans' series ''[[Hell's Gate]]'' the Arcanans use [[
* The Magitek computer Hex from [[Discworld]] uses ants for its operating system, and beehives for memory.
** It also has ram skulls in it, and a mouse has set up a little nest. The skulls seem to make it work faster, and they have no idea ''what'' the mouse is for but it stops working when they take it out.
* ''[[A Simple Survey]]'' has a short story with a grotesque form of this: technology based on organs of human beings. Examples include: frying pans with artificial skin to measure heat (preventing food from being overcooked), ladles with lips to taste their contents, and cameras that use eyeballs to focus at long distances.
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