Anthony Nance <nance@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>David DeLaney <dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On 9 May 2008 12:18:02 GMT, Anthony Nance <nance@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>>>I recently read a press release about a black hole getting ejected
>>>from its parent galaxy, and the reaction/image that popped to mind
>>>made me wonder if there are any SF stories that involve interactions
>>>with "rogue" black holes (e.g. black holes "wandering" between
galaxies).
>>
>> The first one that popped to mind doesn't quite fit; Arcot, Wade, &
Morey
>> have an encounter with what we'd today call a neutron star,
unexpectedly.
>> I'm recalling several encounters with stories that warn about the
dangers
>> of running across an unmapped black hole while hyperspacing, but
details
>> aren't coming to mind, and don't know if any of them count as 'between
>> galaxies'.
>
>Oh, sorry - "between galaxies" isn't meant as a restriction, just an
example.
Okay, then Larry Niven's Known Space has some plots dealing with them in
various ways, since hyperdrive went Wonky when subjected to too steep a
gravity gradient. (Julian Forward for the win!)
>> The Xeelee built almost the exact opposite of your query, once... :)
>
>Can you say a bit more? I've never read anything in the Xeelee universe.
Stephen Baxter's stuff; some people wuv it, some are turned off by it. The
Xeelee are a supertech race that humanity occasionally gets to interact
with
the byproducts of, usually to humanity's detriment alas; one of them, in
Ring,
is quite possibly one of the largest described constructed items evar: a
collection of cosmic string on a truly huge scale, put together to cause a
very specific anomaly at its exact center... and being warred on by
photino
birds, who are (very slowly) throwing galaxies at it. And not for the
obvious
reason, either.
The interior of the cosmic-string array (the "Ring" of the title) was a
vast
stretch of empty space, with highly-calculated stresses imposed on it...
but I
can't help thinking that disastrous consequences would have struck anyone
who
ran past said center by accident, even though it's almost the opposite of
a black (_or_ white) hole. But this is rather far from your original
query.
Dave "and getting farther by the light-minute" DeLaney
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