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* A science fiction story posits a scientist living on an island creating a population of small, intelligent creatures that live short lives in an ammonia environment in tanks in his lab. He communicates with them through a teletype connection (it's an old story). They make many great inventions for him because their generations are short in time, so many generations can work on a problem. The outside world wants them, so the navy is poised to attack him. He requires his creatures to build a completely impregnable shield around the island, which they do. The navy spends the rest of time bombarding the grey sphere, and he spends the rest of his days with his creatures. I forget the name of the story and the author. Can someone supply them please?
** "Microcosmic God" by Theodore Sturgeon, perhaps? This troper asked for an ID of one collection that it appeared in, on Usenet, some years ago.
* ''The Santaroga Barrier'' by [[Frank Herbert]]. A small, somewhat prosperous farming, cheese-making community... with but a few insignificant anomalies. Except no one who isn't a local can get any foothold, not even big corporations. And people who start looking too aggressively into what really isn't their business tend to end up in a fatal accident due to freakish coincidence of several apparently innocent random events and minor mistakes.
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