Hi Butch,
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 11:33:10 -0800 (PST), Butch Malahide
<fred.galvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Phiip Jose Farmer's "World of Tiers" series has already been
>mentioned. Here are a couple more suggestions. SPOILERS
>
>Sam Merwin, Jr., "Star Tracks", Astounding Science Fiction, March,
>1952. Short story. The earth is found to be enclosed in a kind of
>planetarium several million miles in radius. This is discovered when
>astronomers in a space observatory are able to see the tracks on which
>the stars move: "But we have found this out--only Earth is real as we
>know it, only Earth and perhaps the Sun. It is a cosmic jest. Our
>atmosphere has hid the truth from us. The other planets are mere disks
>or marbles--of that we aren't yet certain. And the stars, whatever
>they are, move on tracks on the inner side of a dark barrier that
>encloses us."
>
>Steven Brust, _To Reign in Hell_, 1984. Novel. Maybe not exactly what
>you're looking for, as it is told from the point of view of the beings
>who created our universe, and is mostly about events leading up to the
>Creation.
Thanks. I hope that I'll be able to track these down.
Best Regards, Jim
http://artsnova.com/blog
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