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At one time, black holes in science fiction were often endowed with the traits of wormholes. This has for the most part disappeared as a black hole isn't a hole in space but a dense mass and the visible vortex effect often associated with black holes is merely the accretion disk of visible matter being drawn toward it.
Giacomo Casanova's 1788 Icosaméron is a 5-volume, 1,800-page story of a brother and sister who fall into the Earth and discover the subterranean utopia of the Mégamicres, a race of multicolored, hermaphroditic dwarfs. An early science-fiction work called Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a "Captain Adam Seaborn" appeared in print in 1820. In ...
Blue Hole (Japanese: ブルーホール, Hepburn: Burū Hōru) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yukinobu Hoshino. It was serialized in Kodansha 's seinen manga magazine Mr. Magazine from 1991 to 1992, with its chapters collected in two tankōbon volumes.
Neal Stephenson at The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction; Works by Neal Stephenson at Open Library "Science Fiction as a Literary Genre" – lecture by Stephenson at Gresham College, London in May 2008; Neal Stephenson at authors@Google, September 12, 2008. Neal Stephenson at Library of Congress; Stephen Bury at LC Authorities, two records
The concept of micro black holes was first theorized scientifically in the 1970s, and quickly became popular in science fiction. [4] [5] [12] In Larry Niven's 1974 short story "The Hole Man", a microscopic black hole is used as a murder weapon by exploiting the tidal effects at short range, [1] [3] [10] and in Niven's 1975 short story "The ...
Indeed, new measurements taken during a December scuba-diving expedition indicate that the Taam Ja’ Blue Hole (TJBH), located in Chetumal Bay off the Yucatan Peninsula, extends at least 1,380 ...
The Light of Other Days is a 2000 science fiction novel written by Stephen Baxter based on a synopsis by Arthur C. Clarke, [1] which explores the development of wormhole technology to the point where information can be passed instantaneously between points in the spacetime continuum.
Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia is a 2021 reference work written by science fiction scholar Gary Westfahl and published by ABC-Clio/Greenwood.The book contains eight essays on the history of science fiction, eleven thematic essays on how different topics relate to science fiction, and 250 entries on various science fiction subgenres, authors, works, and motifs.