David DeLaney <dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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
Thanks Dave.
- Tony
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