True Names
Free Book - "True Names"
by: Benjamin Rosenbaum
A science fiction novella initially published in Lou Anders' "Fast Forward 2" anthology, Pyr, 2008. It's the tale of dueling galactic colony-organisms that are competing to recruit all the matter in the universe for raw computation.
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