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Imaginary Magnitude

Imaginary Magnitude

This collection of futuristic prefaces to books of the twenty-first century ranges from the scientific to computer-generated literature


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“Not only does God play dice with the world—He does not let us see what He has rolled.”

Imaginary Magnitude" (1981), "Lecture XLIII", tr. Marc E. Heine (1984)

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