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At times he succumbs to the weaknesses of thrillers, primarily during the far-future Earth sequence when the bored humans encounter deadly voynix and the evil Caliban whose presence in the novel is one of many unexplained occurrences and rise to the occasion by resisting them more rigorously than seemed possible earlier in the novel.

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For example, why did the voynix go berserk abruptly?

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With the failure of the ancient and mysterious technology, life on Earth has become virtually neolithic as the pampered humans learn to survive on their own, a struggle which becomes considerably more difficult when the voynix, their former robotic-like servants, become predatory.

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Simmons concocts something about all surviving humans having some Jewish blood, which they had for millennia without the voynix previously getting into a snit over it.

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Once again, Ada looked around and felt the absence of servitors and voynix.

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Closer, looming over the lens, scores of voynix were milling around the sonie, throwing their bodies onto the machine, battering it with boulders and stacking huge rocks on top of it.

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Savi was watching the blue-lighted voynix scrabbling closer over rooftops and through the maze of narrow, winding streets.

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“How do you know that voynix followed me anywhere?” asked Harman.

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Does it have something to do with the voynix? asked Orphu.

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All most Jovian moravecs knew of the fabled voynix was that the planet Earth had radiated unprecedented quantum phase-shift activity when the creatures had first been mentioned in monitored post-human neutrino communications more than two thousand e-years earlier.

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