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Brain Wave (1954) |
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This debut novel from SF superstar Anderson explains that the human
intelligence is far more powerful than we have thus far seen. In fact,
once we escape from the effects of a force field that is limiting... (more) |
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Eve Times Four (1960) |
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An old "pulp" SF story about an accident which strands some space travelers on a deserted but habitable planet. One of them is a female mathematician:
Teresina was of the tall and willowy persuasion,... (more) |
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The Gate of the Flying Knives (1979) |
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| Poul Anderson |
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For his contribution to the first "Thieves' World" collection, Poul Anderson contributed a fantasy story about an illustrated scroll which forms a gateway between dimensions.
As the story progresses,... (more) |
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Operation Chaos / Operation Changeling (1969) |
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| Poul Anderson |
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Part of a series of stories about detectives who use magic and religion published in Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine in the 1960s, Operation Changeling (later published in novelized form in Operation... (more) |
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Security (1953) |
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| Poul Anderson |
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A top secret project uses some mathematical physics to create a new material. As the title makes clear, the secrecy (and what the head of the project is willing to do to achieve it) is really the point... (more) |
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Tau Zero (1970) |
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| Poul Anderson |
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Special relativity takes center stage in this classic science-fiction
novel. So much so that the number tau, by which one must divide an
object's rest mass to determine its apparent mass when travelling... (more) |
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Three Cornered Wheel (1963) |
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| Poul Anderson |
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Sometimes a surprising mathematical fact will inspire a science fiction story to illustrate it. I suspect that is what happened with this story that comes up with a contrived circumstance in which the... (more) |
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