Re: "Rogue" black holes in SF?

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pmfan57 <jwragusa@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> The Earth was gradually eaten by a black hole in one of Dan
> Simmons SF epics, as I recall.

By a small man-made black hole that some researcher accidentally
dropped, iirc, and it was in HYPERION et seq.  However--

spoiler space re THE FALL OF HYPERION...
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--I *think* that in FALL someone finds out that there was a massive
hoax perpetrated by some/all of the AI community, and what really
happened was that the Earth was tele****ted away shortly before it
allegedly went crunch, and the visual transmissions and other data
regarding the event were faked.  Or something.

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William December Starr <wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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