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madaxe_again on March 31, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Can a Living Creature Be as Big as a Galaxy?

There's a nice sf short story, I think by Alastair Reynolds, which concerns worms in a glacier essentially acting as neurons in a vast, slow brain.

Found. "Glacial", Galactic North anthology.

omerhj on March 31, 2016 [–]

Another Alastair Reynolds short story in the same vein is "A Murmuration" that I read (on my Kindle) in Interzone #257. In the story a flock of birds exhibits intelligence independently from the individual birds.

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