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Jason Brammer's hand-painted eyeball matrioshka, "The Watchers," is a fine addition to the genre of crazy-awesome stuff you can do with blank nested dolls.
Boing Boing 2009
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Note 103: "Nesting" entails the placement of memory images one within the next, as in a Russian matrioshka doll.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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While exploring the pre-technological world Midgarth, one of four dozen pocket universes created within a series of vast, orbital matrioshka computer arrays, Aristide uncovers a fiendish plot threatening to set off a nightmare scenario, perhaps even bringing about the ultimate Existential Crisis: the end of civilization itself.
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While exploring the pre-technological world Midgarth, one of four dozen pocket universes created within a series of vast, orbital matrioshka computer arrays, Aristide uncovers a fiendish plot threatening to set off a nightmare scenario, perhaps even bringing about the ultimate Existential Crisis: the end of civilization itself.
May 2008 2008
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There's talking cats, magic in the any sufficiently advanced technology sense swords, immense matrioshka array AI, multi bodies, reincarnation, zombies, and weaponry and conflict that would certainly make Doc Smith and Edmond Hamilton pretty happy.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Implied Spaces - Walter Jon Williams Blue Tyson 2008
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On the edge of Red Square, an enterprising vendor is selling traditional Russian matrioshka dolls featuring portraits of Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev.
Moscow Sampler 2009
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There's talking cats, magic in the any sufficiently advanced technology sense swords, immense matrioshka array AI, multi bodies, reincarnation, zombies, and weaponry and conflict that would certainly make Doc Smith and Edmond Hamilton pretty happy.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Night Shade Books Halloween 2008 - Jeremy Lassen Blue Tyson 2009
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In the ruins of the matrioshka brain things were stirring: Von Neumann machines twisted by time and the slow poison of a storm of radiation, the evolutionary descendants of the machines that had dismantled a solar system.
A very Cthulu Christmas... shadesong 2004
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Like a shallow matrioshka doll, inside the box was the
Sharp as a Marble 2008
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A matrioshka-like nesting bowl captured Brownlee's fancy, then railed against the aesthetics of bacon.
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