"The Planck Dive" is a
science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...
novelette by Australian writer
Greg Egan
Greg Egan (born 20 August 1961) is an Australian science fiction writer and amateur mathematician, best known for his works of hard science fiction. Egan has won multiple awards including the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Hugo Award, an ...
, published in 1998. It was nominated for the 1999
Hugo Award for Best Novelette
The Hugo Award for Best Novelette is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The novelette award is available for works of fiction of ...
.
The LOCUS Index to SF Awards
Plot summary
The story is set in the polis known as Cartan Null, where five explorers are preparing to send cloned copies of themselves on a scientific journey into a black hole. As they are about to make the dive a biographer from Earth and his daughter arrive with intentions of writing their story.
See also
* ''Diaspora''
References
External links
The Planck Dive
- freely downloadable from the author's website.
*
Australian science fiction short stories
1998 short stories
Works originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction
Short stories by Greg Egan
Fiction about black holes
Fiction about cloning
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