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When one looks in the box, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the cat.

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Doomsday SF is suddenly a hot topic because of all the overwrought news coverage of the Large Hadron Collider: from MSNBC, Totally Fictional Doomsdays. In addition to a really fine and theatrical photo of my dad (physicist John G. Cramer) in the laboratory, and discussion of the “eerie” parallels between the news story and my dad’s novel Einstein’s Bridge, MSNBC’s Alan Boyle provides a list of ten other novels “that explore the fictional frontiers of particle physics.”

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

Blasphemy by Douglas Preston

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Cosm by Gregory Benford

Final Theory by Mark Alpert

Flashforward by Robert J. Sawyer

The God Particle by Richard Cox

A Hole in Texas by Herman Wouk

Maniford: Time by Stephen Baxter

Timescape by Gregory Benford

My dad says, “I’m supposed to be interviewed on NPR’s All Things Considered this afternoon (Wednesday) about the same thing. The sound file for this should be available on the NPR web tomorrow.” UDPATE: The part about science fiction on All Things Considered seems to have ended up on the cutting room floor.

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Kathryn Cramer

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Kathryn Cramer is a writer, critic, and anthologist presently co-editing the Year's Best Fantasy and Year's Best SF series with her husband David G. Hartwell.

Kathryn Cramer is editor or co-editor of over two dozen science fiction and fantasy anthologies, including the World Fantasy Award-winning The Architecture of Fear (1987, with Peter D. Pautz). With David G. Hartwell, she also co-edited many volumes of the annual Year's Best SF and Year's Best Fantasy annuals. She is also a co-founder of the New York Review of Science Fiction, and the author of a small but distinguished body of short SF and fantasy fiction.

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