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.
