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pleiadian wrote: ↑Wed May 02, 2018 1:00 pm

What I don't know is, if those system locations are procedurally generated, or if they took them off some NASA database.

Both: some tens of thousands are from star catalogues, the other ~400 billion are generated.

Disembodied wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2018 9:42 am

A bit more googling … is it Egan's "Dark Integers"?

Yes, it is Greg Egan's "Dark Integers", the preceding story is "Luminous".

Over to Disembodied.

Schild's Ladder , Greg Egan Greg Egan is a mathematician, so maths plays an important role in many of his stories. In Schild's ladder, the math is used to do (quantum) physics. However, in the story I am looking for, it is the calculation (i.e.: the construction of the numbers) itself which is dest...

The title of the story is a custom data type defined by one of the characters in the story.

The author is Australian, he has won among others a Hugo Award, and there are no pictures of him on the internet.

Last year, one of his stories was released as a short film.

Apart from SF, he has also published scientific papers.

The story is not your typical military SF, the military only play a marginal role if any. The "fighters", diplomats and explorers are mathematicians. It is more about topics in the philosophy of mathematics, such as platonism (do mathematical entities exist independently?), constructivism ...

The short story I am looking for is the successor to another short story by the same author.

In the first story, the "enemy" of the second story is discovered by the humans as a result of doing calculations with very big numbers.

lol. I thought "Who's this Gimbal Locke person then?" and it turns out you haven't posted since before I registered. :lol: Nice to meet you, Commander Malacandra! Have been out in the black for quite a while, searching for Raxxla. Back to the subject at hand: calculating the very big numb...

Calculating really large numbers can lead to war.

I'm asking for the author and the title of the story.

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee - trilogy: Machineries of Empire.

( My previous post here was in 2012? Time flies... )

I was learning to drive when Arc Elite came out. I quickly decided not to play right before a driving lesson, because I didn't want to be in the my-front-shield-can-easily-sustain-one-or-two-crashes-through-those-slow-ones-in-front-of-me mindset. Just a random thought, brought up by association when...

And does the person who plays in strict mode also play in wireframes?

I like the current list: every 3 or 4 months, I check if there are updates to the OXPs I have installed by sorting the list on update time -most recent on top- and reading down to where I stopped the previous time. At the same time, I see which new OXPs I have missed on the BB. I like that I only ha...

You can cycle through compass targets with \ or # as soon as you arrive in the destination system. The station beacon is a diamond with the letter N. Make sure it is green (if it's red you're flying away from it) and in the middle of your compass. You're on track for the station. Edit: you need to b...

Zieman wrote:

First thing that came to my mind:
EAS Agamemnon - Omega class Destroyer acting as Sheridan's flagship in Earth Alliance civil war 2261 in Babylon 5 (season 4)?

Great mind! Over to you.