I am also grateful to everyone who has contributed to this website. Thanks to Vijay Fafat for writing the summary of that work (and so many others). The 1,500th entry is The Man of Forty Crowns by Voltaire. ( more)Įxciting News: The total number of works of mathematical fiction listed in this database recently reached a milestone. Story about a far-away civilization transmitting a complex message in all directions, containing a software program (“Turing machine”) which ends up creating von Neumann machines with one. Republished in the Baxter compilation 'Phase Space'. Originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction August 2003. *does* something about it, with immense consequences. ( more)Ī mathematician solves Fermi's paradox, and then actually Wells' classic 'The Time Machine' updates the story with some quantum mechanics and general relativity that were not available to Wells in 1895. Humanity, trapped and quarantined by the Xeelee in hyperspace (see 'Stephen Baxter - The Eighth Room'), live on a spherical world apparently surrounded by a huge shell. An advanced species of aliens - the Ghosts - have started conducting experiments. ( more)īaxter's hard-SF ideas are often quite stunning in their scope and creativity. This starts as an alternate history short story, in which Lord Halifax became Prime Minister of England in 1940 and reaches an accommodation with Germany Germany holds sway over Europe and Russia, Japan. 'sets in motion' this unusual science fiction novel that takes us Meme-mind - I think this means some sort of intelligence whoseĪfter hearing a (rather bogus sounding) mathematical proof thatĬivilization is headed for disaster, mathematician Cornelius Taine To the meme-minds in Gregory Benford's Foundations Fear.

The Logic Pool deals with an intelligence that is similar The story tries to delve into Hawking's idea of imaginary time - how it may occur that at the beginning of the universe, time and space were ambiguously defined, smeared out into each other as a flattened. This makes privacy essentially an obsolete. Possible to witness any event that is taking or has taken place in the Using the WormCam (a camera sent through a wormhole in space-time), it is Physical realization of the total knowledge of the creatures which created ( more)įar in the future, a human explores a giant fractal construction which is a In far distant future, the Xeelee decide to lock away the human race in a world hidden in hyperspace (as the pale, atavistic remnants. The story forms part of the Xeelee-sequence of stories and novels. There is an interpretation of Dante's 'Divine Comedy' as a mystical description of the universe as a hypersphere (see 'Dante and the 3-sphere'Īmerican Journal of Physics - December 1979 - Volume. ( Note: This page not the entire list of works of A list compiled by Alex Kasman ( College of Charleston)Īuthor includes the word(s): Stephen Baxter13 matches found out of 1597

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