City-state in ancient Greece

Usage examples of polis.

Doppler-shifted stars around the polis, following the frozen, concentric waves of color across the sky from expansion to convergence.

Its main purpose was to enable the citizens of the polis to create offspring: a child of one parent, or two, or twenty formed partly in their own image, partly according to their wishes, and partly by chance.

The first mind seeds had been translated from DNA nine centuries before, when the polis founders had invented the Shaper programming language to re-create the essential processes of neuroembryology in software.

But the input navigator had long since grown accustomed to confining itself to the polis library, a habit which had been powerfully rewarded.

Dancing a weird chaotic lockstep, the two navigators began hopping from scape to scape, polis to polis, planet to planet.

It sent a copy of the public signature out into the polis, to be catalogued, to he counted.

The citizen was free to reprogram it at will, but the polis would permit no other software to touch it.

They still had one more day before their old Konishi-selves awoke in their place-but with each passing minute, now, the sense of polis life moving on and leaving them behind grew stronger.

Flesher gestalt, limited by anatomy, was much more subdued than the polis versions, but ve thought ve could detect a growing number of faces expressing consternation.

The design was perfectly functional, but since each space-going clone of Carter-Zimmerman polis was barely larger than one of these Star Puppies, having the real things as passengers was out of the question.

When Carter-Zimmerman polis was cloned a thousand times and the clones launched toward a thousand destinations, the vast majority of citizens taking part in the Diaspora had sensibly decided to keep all their snapshots frozen until they arrived, side-stepping both tedium and risk.

The polis was too small to be equipped with serious astronomical facilities, and in any case the Star Puppies stuck slavishly to their limited, mock-biological vision.

He wanted every other polis to see the error of its ways, and follow C-Z to the stars.

There are self-modified citizens in this polis more alien than the aliens in Ashton-Laval.

There are ninety-seven languages in current use in C-Z-half of them invented since the polis was founded.