Timeline for Novella (and follow up short story) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine about the stars going out. Published ~20 years ago
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| Apr 14, 2020 at 12:03 | comment | added | Thomas Holtz | @JacobC.saysReinstateMonica Thanks. I have done so. (This is my first encounter with the site, so I didn't know all the operations.) | |
| Apr 14, 2020 at 12:02 | vote | accept | Thomas Holtz | ||
| Apr 14, 2020 at 12:01 | answer | added | Thomas Holtz | timeline score: 12 | |
| Apr 13, 2020 at 6:26 | comment | added | Jacob C. | @ThomasHoltz Then please post that as an answer and accept your own answer (clicking the check mark on the left), so that this is removed from the "Unanswered" list. | |
| Apr 11, 2020 at 16:47 | comment | added | Thomas Holtz | I have found them! The stories are William Barton's "Moments of Inertia" (Asimov's April/May 2004) and the sequel "Dark of the Sun" (Asimov's April/May 2005). | |
| Mar 22, 2020 at 16:06 | comment | added | Thomas Holtz | @RichardC No, it is most definitely a contemporary story set in modern (turn of the millennium) times. As mentioned, they make fun of Wolf Blitzer's name, in reference to his work as a CNN journalist. Furthermore, IASFM (or now "Asimov's Science Fiction") only very, very rarely does reprints. Thanks for the suggestion, however. | |
| Mar 22, 2020 at 13:19 | comment | added | Richard C | @A. Golding it might be worth posting that as an answer, further in that wiki page it states that the story won the Hugo award for best short story of 1954 in 2004, I imagine this would have led to reprints etc and would match up with the questions idea of 20 years + or - 4-5 years. | |
| Mar 22, 2020 at 2:22 | comment | added | Stephen Collings | The stars going out unexpectedly has some similarities to the Xeelee Sequence by Baxter... | |
| Mar 21, 2020 at 16:18 | history | edited | FuzzyBoots | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 21, 2020 at 16:16 | comment | added | Simpleton | 'The last question' is one where the Stars die out, along with all matter and energy. But there's no mention of liquid nitrogen in there. | |
| Mar 21, 2020 at 15:45 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | There is an Arthur C. Clarke short story "The Nine Billion Names of God" (1953) which is quite famous, but was first published decades before the indicated period. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God | |
| Mar 21, 2020 at 1:26 | comment | added | Thomas Holtz | @DavidTonhofer It wasn't. But that does look interesting. | |
| Mar 20, 2020 at 22:57 | comment | added | David Tonhofer | Maybe a followup to William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land? There were a few of those. See here | |
| Mar 20, 2020 at 18:16 | comment | added | Thomas Holtz | @MrLister In the short story the Russians bombed their own rioting people in Moscow, and back in the US their were neighbors mobbing the protagonists towards the end. | |
| Mar 20, 2020 at 18:11 | comment | added | moopet | @MrLister the rest of it doesn't sound anything like that story | |
| Mar 20, 2020 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/1241062123070988288 | ||
| Mar 20, 2020 at 16:44 | comment | added | Ross Presser | longshot, maybe wrong period, doesn't look like it was in IASFM, but: Last Contact by Stephen Baxter? | |
| Mar 20, 2020 at 15:44 | comment | added | LSerni | @MrLister the novella wouldn't have "covered the whole thing". | |
| Mar 20, 2020 at 15:30 | comment | added | Mr Lister | Were they going out without any fuss? | |
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| Mar 20, 2020 at 15:15 | history | asked | Thomas Holtz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |