9781933500263: Distances
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ISBN 10 : 1933500263 ISBN 13 : 9781933500263
Editeur : Aqueduct Press, 2008

Synopsis

Winner of the 2008 Carl Brandon Society Parallax Award

Honor List for 2009 James Tiptree, Jr. Award

Distances is fascinating far-future science fiction, set in a desert city. For Anasuya, mathematics was experiential, a sixth sense that bared before her the harmonies, natural and artificial, that formed the sub-text of the world. So when mathematicians from the planet Tirana, 18-light-years-distant, ask Anasuya's help in solving a series of equations, she finds the new geometrical space they present her with intriguing. But as she explores the new space, she soon comes to suspect that it represents an actual physical system, and that the equations she is being asked to solve have a significance the Tiranis are concealing.

Reviews

"...Individual sections illuminate and provide a rounded backdrop to the whole, until by the end of this finely layered novella I felt as though I had met a fully formed human being—not to mention a number of fascinating characters—and all with a mathematical conundrum of epic proportions with dire import for the cultures of two planets." (read the whole review) — Bob Blough, Tangent Online July 8, 2009

"… perhaps the most satisfying thing about Distances is how irreducible it feels, how Singh mixes mathematical, artistic and sociocultural speculation in a way that feels holistic precisely because it is aware of where those different domains intersect and interact.." — Niall Harrison, Torque Control

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À propos de l?auteur

Vandana Singh was born and raised in India. She was brought up on a diet of myths, legends, and other fantastical tales in two languages, Hindi and English. As a teenager she acquired a lifelong interest in environmental and women’s issues, and a keen passion for science. She has a PhD in theoretical particle physics and currently lives near Boston with her husband, daughter, and dog. She divides her energies between worrying about global warming, teaching college physics, writing science fiction and fantasy, and spending time with her family. Her short stories have appeared in such anthologies and magazines as Polyphony, So Long Been Dreaming, Interfictions, The Third Alternative, and Strange Horizons, and have been short-listed for the BSFA and Parallax awards. She is the author of the ALA Notable book for children, Younguncle Comes to Town (Viking 2006). A collection of her short fiction, The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories, came out from Zubaan, New Delhi, in ­December 2007. For more about her, please visit her website at http://vandana-writes.com/.

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Éditeur
Aqueduct Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1933500263
ISBN 13 
9781933500263
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
158
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