Read Greg Egan‘s very good long novelette “Dark Integers” in the Oct/Nov Asimov’s yesterday. It’s a sequel to his earlier story “Luminous” and features maths geeks saving the universe. For some odd reason it made me think of Charlie Stross’s Laundry stories, which feature a computer geek whose calculations threaten the fabric of reality. Is this some of kind of geek wish fulfilment. For a full 45 seconds I considered what a book of geeks-saving-the-universe stories might be like. I concluded that I would like it very much, but I’m not so sure about you.
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Voting “yes” to geeks saving the universe. Make that 2 votes. My husband the geek is bouncing around now making superhero noises, and he’s the one who established the household rule: always buy original anthologies of short SF&F.
Sequel to Luminous? Sweet!
Read the first half of the New Space Opera last night, too, and his story in there is excellent, too, having one of those ‘Wh-what!!!??’ moments not far in.
Nice work. :)
Geek Universal?
Sounds like fun.