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HIGHER DIMENSIONS IN SCIENCE FICTION 181<br />
36. Pohl, F. (1987) The Coming of Quantum Cats. New York: Bantam. A parallel<br />
worlds story.<br />
37. Pohl, F. and Williamson, J. (1987) The Singers of Times. New York: Ballantine.<br />
A parallel worlds story.<br />
38. Schachner, N. (1938) "Simultaneous Worlds." All 3-D matter extends into<br />
a higher dimension. A machine images these higher worlds that resemble<br />
Earth.<br />
39. Shaw, R. (1967) Night Walk. New York: Banner Books. A hyperspace universe<br />
has a fiendishly complicated shape.<br />
40. Shaw, B. (1986) The Two-Timers. A man who lost his wife inadvertently<br />
creates a parallel world in which she still exists.<br />
41. Shaw, B. (1987) A Wreath of Stars. New York: Baen Books. Two worlds<br />
made of different kinds of matter coexist until the approach of a star shifts<br />
the orbit of one of them.<br />
42. Silverberg, R. (1972) Trips. Transuniversal tourists wander aimlessly<br />
<strong>through</strong> worlds with varying similarities.<br />
43. Simak, C. (1992) Ring Around the Sun. New York: Carroll & Graf. (Originally<br />
published in 1953.) Describes a series of Earths, empty of humanity<br />
and available for colonization and exploitation.<br />
44. Simak, C. (1943) Shadow of Life. Martians learn to shrink themselves to<br />
subatomic size by extending into the fourth dimension, causing them to<br />
lose mass and size in the other three dimensions.<br />
45. Smith, E. E. (1939) Grey Lensman. A crew feels as though they "were being<br />
compressed, not as a whole, but atom by atom . . . twisted . . . extruded . . .<br />
in an unknowable and non-existent direction. . . . Hyperspace is funny that<br />
way. . . ."A weapon known as a "hyperspatial tube" is used. It is described<br />
as an "extradimensional" vortex. The terminus of the tube cannot be established<br />
too close to a star due to the tube's apparent sensitivity to gravitational<br />
fields.<br />
46. Smith, M. (1949) The Mystery of Element 117. Describes how our universe<br />
extends a short distance into a fourth spatial dimension. Because of this, it<br />
is possible to rotate matter completely out of three-space by building a 4-D<br />
translator. Element 117 opens a portal into this new dimension inhabited<br />
by humans who have died. They live in a neighboring world to ours,<br />
slightly shifted from ours along the fourth dimension. "Our 3-space is but<br />
one hyperplane of hyperspace." Succeeding layers are linked together like<br />
pages in a book.