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Re:Six works of Computer Science-Fiction by EdwardCoffin on Monday April 27, 2015 @01:12PM (#9447659)
He implies that such things exist. I think he cites something Turing was supposed to have written (in-universe, I mean) that crossed over between CS and demonology. It doesn't go beyond plausible-sounding titles and breezy one-sentence synopses though.

You can read a bit early on in the first book of the series where he talks a bit about this stuff, on Google books, page 17: https://books.google.ca/books?id=GfSGzhDcU2UC&lpg=PP1&dq=atr...

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Re:Six works of Computer Science-Fiction by KineticLensman on Monday April 27, 2015 @01:42PM (#9447884)
Stross mentions a suppressed volume of Knuth, can't remember in which book
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Re:Six works of Computer Science-Fiction by EdwardCoffin on Monday April 27, 2015 @01:46PM (#9447910)
I'd forgotten about that. Stross's book shows its age here, it's volume 4. The bit is on page 134: https://books.google.ca/books?id=GfSGzhDcU2UC&lpg=PP1&dq=atr...
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Re:Six works of Computer Science-Fiction by ableal on Monday April 27, 2015 @02:43PM (#9448321)
> He implies that such things exist.

This looks pretty damning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petersen_graph

(Don't email it to cstross, I already did ;-)

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