Collision review: How CERN’s stellar secrets became sci-fi gold

Collision

Edited by Rob Appleby and Connie Potter (Comma Press)

IN The Ogre, the Monk and the Maiden, Margaret Drabble’s ingenious story for the brand new sci-fi anthology Collision, a personality referred to as Jaz works on “the interface of language and quantum physics”. Jaz’s speciality is “the speaking of the inexpressible”. Science fiction authors have lengthy grappled with translating cutting-edge analysis – a lot of it grounded in what Drabble calls “the Esperanto of Equations” – into on a regular basis language and interesting plots.

Few …