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jormis29 Since: Mar, 2012
2023-08-06 19:58:32

Seetee by Jack Williamson?

This's in a world where many asteroids in the solar system are formed of antimatter (here called "Contra-Terrane," "CT", or "Seetee"). Our characters hypothesize that came from an extrasolar antimatter rogue planet which entered the solar system in the distant past.

Malady (X-Troper)
2023-08-06 20:21:19

Not if the rest of the quote that I just added, from "The initial plan is" onwards, is accurate. Doesn't sound like The Slow Path is used in the Seetee series.

And it might be this same work from The Slow Path:

There is an old sci-fi novel (can't remember the name) about an expedition to one of the Magellanic Clouds on a ship using an Anti Matter drive to accelerate to a high percentage of the speed of light. One of the astronauts says goodbye to his girlfriend, knowing he'll never see her again and leaves. Unwilling to live without him, and told that regular Human Popsicle method won't allow her to survive for millennia, she volunteers for an experimental procedure involving being placed in a coma. Thousands of years later, the ship returns with only one crewmember aboard (not her boyfriend), who is already dead from life support failure. The medical technology of the future revives him, and he accidentally helps them find the girl's pod. They then travel back to the Magellanic Cloud (using FTL technology this time) and rescue her boyfriend, who was placed in stasis by the Big Bad.

Edited by Malady Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576
skewview Since: Jun, 2013
2023-12-02 02:53:03

I'm fairly certain the two stories are unrelated, yet both stories share partial similarities with a lot of other works. For instance, Minus Planet is the first mention of Anti Matter, AND in the form of a Rogue Planet.

This request has gotten me skimming a lot of the Science Fiction Short Stories that are available to me. Mostly among those published by Analog Magazine, thinking that the two example are oddly familiar and that they seem to describe short form fiction. Part of a larger plan to make work pages for some of them, like Minus Planet.

Admittedly, the second story provides much ambiguity...

edit: minor correction

Edited by skewview AFK with issues, will return
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