Celestial matters
by Richard Garfinkle · first published 1996
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…about the plausibility of other elements of the setting (a binary planet with a shared atmosphere such that it is possible for a feudal society to stage an invasion from one to the other using balloons). Celestial Matters by Richard Garfinkle has Ptolemaic cosmology and Aristotelian physics. The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World by A.K. Dewdney is sort of a modern take on the classic Flatland by…
on “Ask HN: Is there any fiction that's based on a world with different physics?” ↗The science-fantasy novel Celestial Matters is based on ancient Greek physics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Matters
on “Ask HN: Is there any fiction that's based on a world with different physics?” ↗http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Matters I read this book when I was a kid. The setting is a universe in the future where the greeks turned out to be correct. The earth is the center of the universe and bodies of celestial matter move in strange…
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