MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)

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Void Star (2017)
Zachary Mason
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This is a beautifully written and deep work of near-future science fiction about the development of an amazingly powerful sort of artificial intelligence. Two of the characters are mathematical both in name and perspective: Thales is a mathematically inclined Brazilian billionaire who encounters a mysterious AI which calls itself "the mathematician".

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Works Similar to Void Star
According to my `secret formula', the following works of mathematical fiction are similar to this one:
  1. The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason
  2. River of Gods by Ian McDonald
  3. The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine by Greg Egan
  4. The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks
  5. Arcadia by Iain Pears
  6. The Kingdom of Ohio by Matthew Flaming
  7. White Rabbit, Red Wolf [This Story is a Lie] by Tom Pollock
  8. The Fear Index by Robert Harris
  9. The Phantom Scientist [Le Chercher Phantôme] by Robin Cousin
  10. Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
Ratings for Void Star:
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Mathematical Content:
1/5 (1 votes)
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Literary Quality:
5/5 (1 votes)
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Categories:
GenreScience Fiction, Adventure/Espionage,
Motif
TopicComputers/Cryptography,
Medium

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Exciting News: The 1,600th entry was recently added to this database of mathematical fiction! Also, for those of you interested in non-fictional math books let me (shamelessly) plug the recent release of the second edition of my soliton theory textbook.

(Maintained by Alex Kasman, College of Charleston)