What if nanotech has made the individual cells of your body intelligent, and they wanted to be in charge?

Published in Analog, June 1983.

Reprinted in:

• The 1984 Annual World’s Best SF, ed. Donald A. Wollheim & Arthur W. Saha, DAW 1984
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction, First Annual Collection, ed. Gardner R. Dozois, Bluejay 1984
• The Nebula Awards #19, ed. Marta Randall, Arbor House 1984
• Tangents (1989)
• The New Hugo Winners, ed. Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg, Wynwood 1989
• Nanodreams, ed. Elton Elliott, Baen 1995
• Discoveries, ed. Anon., Gollancz 1995
• Visions of Wonder, ed. David G. Hartwell & Milton T. Wolf, Tor 1996
• Cyber-Killers (1997)
• Future on Ice, ed. Orson Scott Card, Tor 1998
• Nanotech, ed. Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, Ace 1998