Crystal Nights (2008)

# Summary "Crystal Nights" is a 2008 science fiction short story by Greg Egan that was originally published in Interzone #215. The story has been included in multiple collections and anthologies, and has been translated into Japanese, Czech, Spanish, French, and Chinese. The excerpt shows the beginning of the narrative, where a character named Daniel presents Julie Dehghani with an extraordinarily powerful computing processor contained in a small, unmarked module.