In Fiction
- An episode of Odyssey 5 featured an attempt to destroy the planet by intentionally creating negatively charged strangelets in a particle accelerator.
- The BBC docudrama End Day features a scenario where a particle accelerator in New York City explodes, creating a strangelet and starting a catastrophic chain reaction which destroys Earth.
- The story A Matter most Strange in the collection Indistinguishable from Magic by Robert L. Forward deals with the making of a strangelet in a particle accelerator.
- Impact, published in 2010 and written by Douglas Preston, deals with an alien machine that creates strangelets. The machine's strangelets impact the Earth and Moon and pass through.
- The novel Phobos, published in 2011 and written by Steve Alten as the third and final part of his Domain trilogy, shows a fictional story where strangelets are unintentionally created at the Large Hadron Collider and escape from it to destroy the Earth.
- In The Arwen, strangelets are used as a method to create a traversable wormhole.
- In the 1992 black-comedy novel Humans by Donald E. Westlake, an irritated God sends an angel to Earth to bring about Armageddon by means of using a strangelet created in a particle accelerator to convert the Earth into a quark star.
- In comic book The Hypernaturals, the manipulation of strangelets is described as the hypernatural power of Shoal to reinforce mass and find ways out from tight spots.
- In the 2010 film Quantum Apocalypse, a strangelet in space approaches earth.
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“To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lonely, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. It’s forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where there’s a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.”
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