Solid matter is nothing to them.
Geoffrey A. Landis, “Dark (matter) Angels”
They slip through the world’s substance
–through steel through concrete through rock through flesh–
more easily than we pass through air
Geoffrey A. Landis (he/him) is a poet and writer by night, and a NASA scientist by day. His writing has appeared in over twenty languages, and his poetry published in magazines and anthologies from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction to The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics. He knows more about mathematics than the average human (a Ph.D. in physics will do that), but if you have serious questions about topology, better ask Greg Egan. He’s the author of two poetry collections, the novel Mars Crossing, and the story collection Impact Parameter (& Other Quantum Realities). He’s won Hugo and Nebula awards for SF, and most recently won the 2024 Rhysling award for best short poem for “What No One Now Remembers.”
Read more from Geoffrey A. Landis in This Exquisite Topology!
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