MathFiction: Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder (Rudy Rucker (editor))

a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)

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Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder (1987)

Rudy Rucker (editor)
(click on names to see more mathematical fiction by the same author)
Highly Rated!

This collection contains a wonderful assortment of mathematically oriented SF written between 1962 (when Mathematical Magpie appeared) and 1987 when this volume was published. Editor Rudy Rucker is a former math professor and well known author of mathematical fiction in his own right. Unfortunately, it is out of print and hard to find.

"1 to 999" by Isaac Asimov
"Four Brands of Impossible" by Norman Kagan
"Tangents" by Greg Bear
"A New Golden Age" by Rudy Rucker
"Professor and Colonel" by Ruth Berman
"The Maxwell Equations" by Anatoly Dnieprov
"Left or Right" by Martin Gardner
"Immune Dreams" by Ian Watson
"Forbidden Knowledge" by Katheryn Cramer
"Gödel's Doom" by George Zebrowski
"The Tale of Happiton" by Douglas Hofstadter
"The Finagle Fiasco" by Don Sakers
"Convergent Series" by Larry Niven
"No-Sided Professor" by Martin Gardner
"Euclid Alone" by William F Orr
"Love Comes to the Middleman" by Marc Laidlaw
"Miss Mouse and the Fourth Dimension" by Robert Sheckley
"The Feeling of Power" by Isaac Asimov
"Cubeworld" by Henry H. Gross
"Schematic Man" by Frederik Pohl
"Time's Rub" by Gregory Benford
"Message Found in a Copy of Flatland" by Rudy Rucker
"The Mathenauts" by Norman Kagan

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Mathematical Content:
5/5 (4 votes)

Literary Quality:
3.25/5 (4 votes)

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