What is "polises"

Usage examples of "polises".

Anthrocosmology was used to justify the inward-looking stance of most polises: if the physical universe was created by human thought, it had no special status which placed it above virtual reality.

There were polises on Earth where the citizens would have found his present structure almost as archaic: a consciousness dominated by sensory perception, an illusion of possessing solid form, a single time coordinate.

But in every C-Z where the charter was rewritten, there would have been citizens who'd have gone off and founded new polises on the old lines.

Paolo had visited public environments in other polises, back on Earth.

It was a typical C-Z compromise: nobody could bear to overturn the old order and do away with gender entirely (as most other polises had done) .

If the solipsist polises had begun to look more inventive than the universe itself .

It was radiating tags indicating that it represented Cartan's mayor: non-sentient software that dealt with the maintenance of good relations with other polises, observing formal niceties and smoothing away minor points of conflict in those cases where no real citizen-to-citizen connections existed.

Since Cartan had been in orbit around Chandrasekhar, ninety-seven light years from Earth, for almost three centuries — and was currently even further from all the other spacefaring polises — Gisela was at a loss to imagine what urgent diplomatic tasks the mayor could be engaged in, let alone why it would want to consult her.