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Language English Originally published February 1998 Published in Asimov's Science Fiction | 4.1/5 Goodreads Publication date February 1998 Publication type Magazine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre(s) Science fiction novelette Nominations Hugo Award for Best Novelette | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"The Planck Dive" is a science fiction novelette published in 1998 by Greg Egan. It was nominated for the 1999 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.
Plot summary
The story is set in the polis known as Cartan Null, where five explorers are preparing to send cloned copies of themselves on a scientific journey into a black hole. As they are about to make the dive a biographer from Earth and his daughter arrive with intentions of writing their story.
References
The Planck Dive Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA