| 1970 L. Niven Ringworld 106
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There wasn't even a theoretical basis for faster-than-light travel. We never did invent hyperdrive, if you'll recall. We'd never have discovered it by accident, either, because we'd never have thought to do our experiments out beyond the singularity.
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| 1989 M. Stiegler in Analog Sci. Fiction/Sci. Fact Apr. 12/1
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Have you ever heard of Singularity?‥. Singularity is a time in the future as envisioned by Vernor and Vinge [sic] . It'll occur when the rate of change of technology is very great—so great that the effort to keep up with the change will overwhelm us.
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| 1990 P. Anderson Inconstant Star in L. Niven et al. Man-Kzin Wars III (1992) x. 241
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Burnt out, a giant star collapses into a form so dense, infinite dense at the core singularity, that light itself can no longer escape its grip.
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| 1991 D. Brin What continues‥& What Fails‥ in D. Brin Otherness (1994) 331
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Not even the singularity was pure enough to typify true blackness.
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| 1994 B. Hambly Crossroad x.142
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We'll make a run for the singularity shear and hope their phaser targeting is thrown out of calibration.
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| 1996 K. MacLeod Stone Canal (1997) 300
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We must work towards being able to control, or at least contain, their development. The same goes for any form of artificial intelligence capable of improving itself. We will do it. The day will come when we control the Singularity, as we've learned to control the flame on the hearth, the lightning of the sky, and the nuclear fire of the stars!
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| 1998 L. A. Graf & M. J. Friedman War Dragons ii. 30
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You find out it was just a subspace echo that got bounced through a singularity from one side of the quadrant to the other.
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| 1998 L. A. Graf & M. J. Friedman War Dragons xiii. 182,
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I was thinking a nearby singularity, or perhaps the fading wavefront from a long-ago supernova.
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