They worked in there half a day, installing something they called a "null-field generator," working in odd clothes made entirely of hair-fine wires, which covered them like mummies.

Ertak's door was half open; a little light, steamy and dim, spilled out of it into the control barrel and cast itself into the plotting tank, making faint glints among the little, hair-fine wires which guided the fields in that compact planetarium.

On the bottom of the board was an additional chip, attached to the circuits on the other side with hair-fine wires.

Wiz looked at the wall of hair-fine wires dubiously.

Miles used the point to pop the hair-fine wires.

The hair-fine wire homed on the switch in the left hand of Alia Narova's petal.

The four plate-sized hoops had been bound together tightly with a hair-fine wire.

He turned the disc over, and there were what looked like fuzzy, hair-fine wires bunched up on the back.

I touched the ecstasy plug with my imaginary fingertips, then ran them down the hair-fine wire going deep into Owen's brain, down into the pleasure center.

A variable-knife is violently illegal: hair-fine wire in a magnetic field, all edge and no blade, thin enough to slice through walls and machinery.