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* The Melding Plague in [[Alastair Reynolds]]' ''Revelation Space'' trilogy. It's totally harmless if you're a baseline human, but if you have any advanced technology ([[Nanotechnology]]) in you, it will infect those and cause them to rapidly fail and go out of control. In ''Chasm City'', a character mentions that if you have those implants in your head, your head will [[Your Head Asplode|explode]]. And it can infect advanced buildings and vehicles as well. In Chasm City, inhabitants of high-tech buildings were [[And I Must Scream|trapped in the walls, visibly screaming in terror]]. The survivors of the disaster don't know if it's possible to revive them.

** Also from the Revelation Space universe - Nightingale, a {{spoiler|[[AI Is a Crapshoot|quite insane medical AI]] that creates artistic statements against war using living human beings as its medium.}}