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* [[Balkanize Me]]: ''The Star Fraction'' has a Balkanised UK, and mentions the UN having over two thousand national flags flying outside.
* [[Brain Uploading]]: The Fall Revolution books have brain backups, or minds that get copied from brain to computer and back to brain.
* [[Brown Note]]: ''The Cassini Division'' mentions the Langford Visual Hack, a [[Shout -Out]] to [[David Langford]]'s "blit" stories:
{{quote| And yes, I ''know'' the Langford hack is just a viral meme in its own right, replicating down the centuries like an old joke, wasting resources every time we act on the insignicant off chance that if someone could think of it, somehow it could be done. What kind of twisted mind ''starts'' these things?}}
* [[Eternal English]]: ''Learning The World'' takes place 14,000 years in the future, by which time it seems virtually certain that English will have changed drastically, in the unlikely event that anything that could be called English still exists at all. Despite this, an important plot point hinges on the fact that the word "bug" could mean either "insect" or "spying device".
* [[Faster -Than -Light Travel]]: ''Newton's Wake'' features both a network of wormholes (called the Skein), and starships with warp drives (which are ridiculously expensive to build, but nonetheless possessed by every major galactic power). Both are based on technology left behind by super-human intelligences after a particularly violent technological singularity.
* [[First Contact]]: The entire plot of ''Learning the World''.
* [[Future Imperfect]]
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