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• dustingetz · Jan 9, 2015 · Recommends

  > Two black holes orbiting each other in a binary configuration ... what the space-time around such a thing must be like If I recall, there is a book about this. Samuel Delany, Empire Star. Absolutely phenomenal. From an amazon review: "The best way to describe the book is to say that it is the literary equivalent of an M.C. Escher print." http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Star-Samuel-R-Delany/dp/0553234...

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• dispossess · Jul 31, 2015 · Recommends

  Babel-17 and Empire Star are both excellent and were the first things of his I read. I've tried to read Triton, Stars in My Pocket, Dhalgren, Nova, and Fall of the Towers and every single one of them has failed to gain or keep…

  on “Samuel Delany and the Past and Future of Science Fiction” ↗