"Barry N. Malzberg - A Galaxy Called Rome" - читать интересную книгу автора (Malzberg Barry N)

Lena thinks of exhuming the dead) that may be ascribed to the
effects of hyperspace upon the corpus; but these sensations can
be shielded, are not visible from the outside, and can be
completely controlled by the phlegmatic types who comprise
most of the pilots of these experimental flights. (Lena is rather
phlegmatic herself. She reacts more to stress than some of her
counterparts but well within the normal range prescribed by the
Bureau, which admittedly does a superficial check.)

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The effects of falling into the Black Galaxy are entirely
different, however, and it is here where Lena's emotional
equipment becomes completely unstuck.

IX


At this point in the story great gobs of physics, astronomical
and mathematical data would have to be incorporated, hopefully
in a way which would furnish the hard-science basis of the story
without repelling the reader.
Of course one should not worry so much about the repulsion of
the reader; most who read science fiction do so in pursuit of
exactly this kind of hard speculation (most often they are
disappointed, but then most often they are after a time unable
to tell the difference), and they would sit still much longer for a
lecture than would, say, readers of the fictions of John Cheever,

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who could hardly bear sociological diatribes wedged into the
everlasting vision of Gehenna which is Cheever's gift to his
admirers. Thus it would be possible without awkwardness to
make the following facts known, and these facts could indeed be
set off from the body of the story and simply told like this:
It is posited that in other galaxies there are neutron stars,
stars of four or five hundred times the size of out own or
“normal” suns, which in their continuing nuclear process,
burning and burning to maintain their light, will collapse in a
mere ten to fifteen thousand years of difficult existence, their
hydrogen fusing to helium then nitrogen and then to even
heavier elements until with an implosion of terrific force,
hungering for power which is no longer there, they collapse