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Laddar... Dangerous Dimensions : Mind-Bending Tales of the Mathematical Weirdav Henry Bartholomew (Redaktör)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Fantastic (in every sense of the word) collection of short stories from the British Library. It was mentioned (by @unwisetrousers on Twitter/X) that it contained a John Buchan short story (Space) so being a Buchan fan I ordered a copy. The Buchan story is a not unexpected excursion into the scientific/mystical world (after all he authored "The gap in the curtain" which has the same narrrator (Sir Edward Leithen) and which covers similar ground. Delighted it also includes Heinlein's "...and he built a crooked house" (which read in my teens and have never forgotten) as well as H G Wells "The Plattner story" (misquoted as 'The Plattner experiment" in Sayers short story "The image in the mirror"), Borges' "The library of Babel" and a work co-authored by H P Lovecraft (The Trap). Whilst the stories are linked by the idea of mathematics, they stray into SF and horror. Recommended for lovers of SF and horror. ( ) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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Unlike the Gothic, which tends to fixate on the past, the haunted, and the ghostly, early weird fiction tends to probe, instead, the very boundaries of reality, exploring the laws and limits of time, space, and matter. This new collection assembles a range of tales from the late 19th and early 20th century that showcase weird fiction's unique preoccupation with physics, mathematics, and mathematicians. From tales of the fifth dimension and higher space, to impossible mathematics and mirror worlds, these stories draw attention to one of the genre's founding inspirations--the quest to explore what "reality" means, where its limits lie, and how we cope when we near the answers. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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