Collision review: How CERN’s stellar secrets became sci-fi gold

Margaret Drabble, Luann Goldie, Steven Moffat, and Stephen Baxter are among the top writers of Collision, an anthology that transforms CERN’s elusive research into science fiction.

To Boyd Tonkin

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Edited by Rob Appleby and Connie Potter (Comma Press)

of demon, monk and maidenthe seminal story of Margaret Drable for a new sci-fi anthology collision, a character called Jazz, is working on “the interface between language and quantum physics.” Jazz specializes in “speaking the unexpressible”. Science fiction authors have long worked to translate cutting-edge research—many of which Drabble calls “Esperanto of equations”—into everyday language and compelling plots.

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