The Planck Dive
Short story by Greg Egan
| "The Planck Dive" | |
|---|---|
| Short story by Greg Egan | |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction |
| Publication | |
| Published in | Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine |
| Publication type | Magazine |
| Publication date | February 1998 |
"The Planck Dive" is a science fiction novelette by Australian writer Greg Egan, published in 1998. It was nominated for the 1999 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.[1]
Plot summary
The story is set in the polis known as Cartan Null, where five explorers are preparing to send cloned copies of themselves on a scientific journey into a black hole. As they are about to make the dive a biographer from Earth and his daughter arrive with intentions of writing their story.
See also
- Diaspora
References
- ^ The LOCUS Index to SF Awards Archived 2010-01-14 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- The Planck Dive - freely downloadable from the author's website.
- The Planck Dive title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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Greg Egan
- An Unusual Angle (1983)
- Quarantine (1992)
- Permutation City (1994)
- Distress (1995)
- Diaspora (1997)
- Teranesia (1999)
- Schild's Ladder (2002)
- Incandescence (2008)
- Zendegi (2010)
- Orthogonal
- The Clockwork Rocket (2011)
- The Eternal Flame (2012)
- The Arrows of Time (2013)
- Dichronauts (2017)
- Axiomatic (1995)
- Luminous (1998)
- Dark Integers and Other Stories (2008)
- Crystal Nights and Other Stories (2009)
- Oceanic (2009)
- The Best of Greg Egan (2019)
- "Neighbourhood Watch" (1987)
- "The Moral Virologist" (1990)
- "Axiomatic" (1990)
- "The Hundred Light-Year Diary" (1992)
- "Wang's Carpets" (1995)
- "Luminous" (1995)
- "TAP (1995)
- "Reasons to Be Cheerful" (1997)
- "The Planck Dive (1998)
- "Oceanic (1998)
- "Singleton" (2002)
- "Dark Integers (2007)
- "Crystal Nights (2008)
- "Didicosm" (2023)
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