Separations
Dunyach, Jean-Claude. "Separations." In French, "Séparations"Galaxies 2005.[1] In translation to English SFWA European Hall of Fame: Sixteen Contemporary Science Fiction Classics from the Continent. New York: Tom Doherty, 2007. Note also SEPARATIONS NOUVELLES 6 (S F ET FANTASTIQUE). Nantes: L'Atalante, 2007.[2]
Cited in a review of the anthology by David N. Samuelson, SFRA Review #285 (Spring 2008): pp. 23-25.[3]
Art and science also combine in other interesting ways. In Jean-Claude Dunyach’s “Separations” (French, 2005) a hard-bitten captain oversees a shipload of hibernating colonists. On this trip, he is plagued by a jaded artist avid to recreate the rumored “dance” of the ship-controlling AIs passing through the shortcut of a singularity. When that passage divides the ship into two universes, however, the artist experiencing the dance can never return to tell the tale, to the mordant joy of the captain. How we get to read about it is unexplained, but we learn that his two selves once kept in contact, with psychologically disastrous results. (p. 24 [We have lightly edited this quotation.])
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