Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird

Paperback Published on: 21/01/2021
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Dangerous Dimensions
Brilliant!
This is a volume from my hands-down favourite series of reprint anthologies, The British Library Tales of the Weird. Each book contains a mix of lesser- an... READ MORE
Simon Unsworth
Dangerous Dimensions
Maths but not as you know it.
'Mind-Bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird' is an audacious subtitle for a book which one would imagine may deter more potential buyers than it would en... READ MORE
Dr Wyrd

Synopsis

'I have stood on the dim shore beyond time and matter and seen it. It moves through strange curves and outrageous angles. Some day I shall travel in time and meet it face to face.'

Unlike nineteenth-century Gothic fiction, which tends to fixate on the past, the haunted and the ghostly, early weird fiction probes the very boundaries of reality - the laws and limits of time, space and matter. Here, unimaginable terrors lurk in hitherto unknown mirror dimensions, calamities in ultra-space threaten to wipe clean all evidence of our universe and experiments in non-Euclidean geometry lead to sickening consequences.

In twelve speculative tales of our universe's mathematics and physics gone awry, this new anthology presents an abundance of curiosities - and terrors - with stories from Jorge Luis Borges, Miriam Allen deFord, Frank Belknap Long and Algernon Blackwood.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: British Library Publishing
  • ISBN: 9780712353687
  • Number of pages: 336
  • Dimensions: 190 x 130 mm
  • Languages: English

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