Greg Egan is an Australian mathematician who has been writing hard science fiction for thirty years, although his hard science is the stuff that sits at the borderland of philosophy: the relationship between mathematics and reality, the nature of consciousness, the implications of quantum mechanics. Previous novels have involved speculations on what life might be … Continue reading Greg Egan: The “Orthogonal” Trilogy
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Human Exposure To Vacuum: Part 2
What really happens when a person is exposed to vacuum? We actually know quite a lot about it. Here are the answers.
Human Exposure To Vacuum: Part 1
What really happens when a person is exposed to vacuum? We actually know quite a lot about it. Here are the answers.
Martin Caidin: Marooned
Not a series of novels, but two rather different novels, by the same author and with the same title, written five years apart. Martin Caidin (first) wrote Marooned in 1964. The novel concerned the fate of an astronaut trapped in orbit by the failure of the retro-pack on his Mercury spacecraft. I encountered it in … Continue reading Martin Caidin: Marooned