MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)

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The Gates of Heaven (1984)
Paul Preuss
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Contributed by Gary Miller

The plot concerns a mathematician whose career has been monotone decreasing. But he comes alive again when a SETI project finds a human message coming from 12 light years away. It seems somebody must have fallen into something like a black hole and our hero tries to understand what happened.

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Works Similar to The Gates of Heaven
According to my `secret formula', the following works of mathematical fiction are similar to this one:
  1. Incandescence by Greg Egan
  2. Artifact by Gregory Benford
  3. Eon by Greg Bear
  4. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 by L. Ron Hubbard
  5. Contact by Carl Sagan
  6. The Memory of Whiteness by Kim Stanley Robinson
  7. Ratner's Star by Don DeLillo
  8. The Flight of the Dragonfly (aka Rocheworld) by Robert L. Forward
  9. The Planiverse: computer contact with a two-dimensional world by A.K. Dewdney
  10. The Ragged Astronauts by Bob Shaw
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Categories:
GenreScience Fiction,
MotifAliens,
TopicMathematical Physics,
MediumNovels,

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Where are the new works of mathematical fiction?: As you can see from this chronological listing, this database includes many works of mathematical fiction for each year from 1990 to 2025. Strangely, only two are listed for 2026, so far. Either less mathematical fiction is being published than in previous years or I'm just having more trouble finding it. If you know of any works of fiction that should be added to this list, especially recently published ones, please let me know. (Keep in mind that I do not include self-published works or children's fiction that just covers elementary mathematical concepts.) Thanks!

(Maintained by Alex Kasman, College of Charleston)