That Could A scientist becomes a perfect superman after injecting himself with self-replicating microscopic machines that continually repair his organs. A man rents a device that sets tiny machines loose in his brain, rewiring it so that he becomes, for a brief time, a different person. Infoviruses systematically reprogram human genes, redirecting evolution.
Society is reshaped from top to bottom by nanotechnology.
Experimental nanomachines escape from the lab and destroy the world. Science fiction writers were profoundly influenced by the publication of Eric Drexler's Engines of Creation. A number of science fiction writers staked out nanotech as their chosen science to fictionalize, and a subgenre was born. Others besides science fiction writers were influenced by Engines of Creation. Researchers around the world have been exploring the possibilities for nanotechnology since the book's publication.