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14. Cramer, J. (1989) Twistor. New York: William Morrow. Cramer is a professor
of physics at the University of Washington. The protagonists in the
book, a male postdoc and a female graduate student working in the University
of Washington physics department, are conducting experiments
that use a peculiar configuration of electromagnetic fields that rotates normal
matter into shadow matter (predicted by string theory) and vice versa,
rotating a stage where one set is replaced by another. The first time this
happens, a spherical volume containing expensive equipment disappears.
Subsequently, the postdoc and two small children are "rotated" to a
shadow-matter Earth and trapped inside a huge tree; an enormous sphere
replaces them in the middle of their Seattle laboratory.
15. Deutsch, A. (1958) "A Subway Named Moebius," in Fantasia Mathematica,
C. Fadiman, ed. New York: Simon and Schuster. A Harvard professor
of mathematics is asked to solve a mysterious disaster in Boston's underground
transportation system.
16. Egan, G, (1995) Quarantine. New York: HarperCollins. The human mind
creates the universe it perceives by quantum-mechanically destroying all
other possible universes. The book's characters (and the readers) are forced
to ask what is real.
17. Gamow, G. (1962) "The Heart on the Other Side," in The Expert Dreamers,
F. Pohl, ed. New York: Doubleday.
18. Gardner, M. (1958) "No-Sided Professor," in Fantasia Mathematica, C.
Fadiman, ed. New York: Simon and Schuster. Describes what happens
when a professor of topology meets Dolores, a striptease artist.
19. Geier, C. (1954) "Environment," in Strange Adventures in Science Fiction,
Groff Conklin, ed. New York: Grayson. (Originally published in 1944.)
Uses the term "hyperspacial drive." "You go in here, and you come out
there . . . ."
20. Geier, S. (1948) "The Flight of the Starling." A spaceship circumnavigates
the solar system in three hours using atomic-powered warp generators.
These generators "create a warp in space around the ship ... a moving ripple
in the fabric of space." The ship rides this ripple like a surfer on an
ocean wave. Between normal space and negative space is a zone called
hyperspace. In negative space, time travel is possible.
21. Hamling, W. (1947) "Orphan of Allans." A natural cataclysm unleashes
forces and "a rent is made in the ether itself. ... A great space warp forms
around Atlantis." This catapults the last few survivors of Atlantis out of
their normal spacetime and into the twentieth century.