daemon@decwrl.UUCP (The devil himself) (08/05/85)
on the subject of gravity ... i tend to 'gravitate' (yeah, yeah ... don't flame me too badly for that horrid pun) toward stories on black holes. a collection edited by jerry pournelle, called, appropriately, _black_holes_, had a few stores that were simply amazing. they're all fairly short, so to elucidate on their content would be to give the 'hole' show away. robert forward's _dragon's_egg_ was also a work that gave careful consideration to the 'potential' of such a concept. i found his treatment of the subject quite out of the mainstream, refreshing, and very well thought out ... what i would expect from a physics-type doctor writing sci-fi. maybe someone should convice stephen hawking to write some sci-fi - *that* would be scary.