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Nemes removes the spool of thread from her kit, tosses away the thread,
and extrudes several hundred meters of invisible monofilament. She runs
this back and forth across the river above the rapids like an unseen 
spider’s web, spreading clear, saplike polycarbon goo on the landward 
side of objects where she loops the wire, both to give her a visual 
reference and to prevent the monofilament from slicing through trees 
and boulders wherever it touches them. Even if someone were hiking the
boulders and lava fields here, the goo would show up only as a faint 
line of sap or as lichen on the rocks. The monofilament web would slice
through Raphael in a dozen places if someone tried to drive the spacecraft
through here now.

Endymion
Chapter 51


“Careful,” said one of the men as the three walked downhill to the
river. “The monofilaments she webbed here should still be in place.”

The thin woman nodded and removed a weapon laser from the flowfoam
pak she carried. Setting the beam to widest dispersal, she fanned
it over the river. Invisible filaments glowed like a spider’s web in
morning dew, crisscrossing the river and wrapping around boulders, 
submerging and reemerging from the white-frothed river.

Rise of Endymion
Chapter 1