Ripples in the Dirac Sea

"Ripples in the Dirac Sea" is a science fiction short story by American writer Geoffrey Landis. It was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction in October 1988.

Synopsis

The inventor of time travel cannot escape dying in a hotel fire, no matter how many millions of times he tries or how many lives he lives between the nanoseconds.

Reception

"Ripples in the Dirac Sea" won the 1989 Nebula Award for Best Short Story,[1] and was a finalist for the 1989 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.[2] In the Washington Post, Tim Sullivan called it "excellent",[3] similarly, at Strange Horizons, Paul Kincaid declared that its presence in an anthology was "a harbinger of the very good things to come".[4]

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References
  1. 1989 Nebula Awards, at Science Fiction Writers of America; retrieved October 18, 2018
  2. 1989 Hugo Awards, at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved October 18, 2018
  3. SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY, by Tim Sullivan, in the Washington Post; published November 30, 1997; retrieved October 18, 2018
  4. The Time Traveler's Almanac, edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer, reviewed by Paul Kincaid, at Strange Horizons; published August 4, 2014; retrieved October 18, 2018
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