Fiction
- In David Brin's novel Earth an artificial micro black hole slips into the core of the earth.
- In Dan Simmons's novels Ilium and Olympos, a major landmark is "Paris Crater", the site where a man made micro black hole's containment field failed, and the black hole sank toward the centre of the earth before collapsing (presumably in accordance with the Hawking radiation theory), leaving a volcanic crater in its wake.
- In the short story How We Lost the Moon, A True Story by Frank W. Allen, which is actually written by Paul J. McAuley, a micro black hole is accidentally created on the Moon and gradually consumes it.
- Larry Niven's Hugo Award-winning stories The Hole Man and The Borderland of Sol deal with "quantum black holes".
- In Martin Caidin's novel Star Bright, an object is created during an implosion-fusion test that has essentially the properties of a micro black hole, though it is not given that name. The object is eventually destroyed, but the resulting explosion destroys a huge area around it.
- In Steven R. Donaldson's 5 volume Gap series of books he presents singularity grenades as anti-spaceship cosmic weapons that release a micro black hole on impact with a ship.
- In Bungie's award-winning Halo Series, the method of faster-than-light travel for spacecraft is through an nondimensional domain known as 'Slipspace', and is made possible by ripping the space-time continuum by having slipspace drives artificially generating thousands of micro black holes that quickly evaporate via Hawking radiation.
- In the computer game Master of Orion II one of the weapons a player can use is a micro black hole generator, which is used to immobilize and destroy enemy ships.
- In a promotional video for the video game Portal 2, the Aperture Science Handheld Dual Portal Device is shown to have a miniature black hole and event horizon approximation ring.
- In Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation, a video game by Banpresto, the original Huckebein is using black hole engine as power source which eventually exploded during test run.
- In the Star Trek universe, the Romulans are known to utilize artificial black holes (generally referred to as "artificial quantum singularities") as a power source. In at least two episodes, malfunctions cause "temporal anomalies" (abnormal time flow).
- John Titor, a self proclaimed time traveler that posted on internet message boards in 2001, talked about two micro black holes ("micro singuilarities" in his terms) as being the base element for a time traveling machine.
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)
“It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)