Ripples in the Dirac Sea
"Ripples in the Dirac Sea" is a science fiction short story by American writer Geoffrey Landis. It was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction in October 1988.
Synopsis
[edit]The inventor of time travel cannot escape dying in a hotel fire, no matter how many millions of times he tries or how many lives he lives between the nanoseconds.
Reception
[edit]"Ripples in the Dirac Sea" won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story of 1988,[1] and was a finalist for the 1989 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.[2] In the Washington Post, Tim Sullivan called it "excellent",[3] similarly, at Strange Horizons, Paul Kincaid declared that its presence in an anthology was "a harbinger of the very good things to come".[4]
References
[edit]- ^ 1989 Nebula Awards, at Science Fiction Writers of America; retrieved October 18, 2018
- ^ 1989 Hugo Awards, at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved October 18, 2018
- ^ SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY, by Tim Sullivan, in the Washington Post; published November 30, 1997; retrieved October 18, 2018
- ^ The Time Traveler's Almanac, edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer, reviewed by Paul Kincaid, at Strange Horizons; published August 4, 2014; retrieved October 18, 2018
External links
[edit]- Ripples in the Dirac Sea title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database