MATHEMATICAL FICTION:
a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)

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Note: This is not the entire list of works of Mathematical Fiction.
What you see below is the subset that meets the following criteria:

30 Most Recently Added/Modified Entries

Robbins v. New York (2008)
Colin Adams
The Shape of Content: Creative Writing in Mathematics and Science (2008)
Chandler Davis, Marjorie Wikler Senechal and Jan Zwicky (editors)
Evariste and Heloise (2008)
Marco Abate
Professor Conundrum Mysteries! (2008)
Bill Streifer
Incandescence (2008)
Greg Egan
The Adventures of the Parrot (2008)
Gary Brown
The Better Mousetrap (2008)
Tom Holt
Irrational Numbers (2008)
Robert Spiller
Regarding Roderer (1994)
Guillermo Martinez
The Last Theorem (2008)
Arthur C. Clarke / Frederik Pohl
Anathem (2008)
Neal Stephenson
Brain Dead (1990)
Charles Beaumont (writer) / Adam Simon (director)
What Are the Odds? (2006)
Justin Spitzer (writer) / Matthew Tritt (director)
Midtown Pythagoras (2007)
Michael Brodsky
Prince of Mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss (2006)
Margaret B.W. Tent
Empire of the Ants (1991)
Bernard Werber
The Gostak and the Doshes (1930)
Miles J. Breuer (M.D.)
The Cambist and Lord Iron (2007)
Daniel Abraham
The Long Chalkboard (2006)
Jenny Allen / Jules Feiffer (Illustrator)
The Accidental Time Machine (2007)
Joe Haldeman
Doing our Babbage (1992)
Ira Slobodien
Pythagorean Crimes (2006)
Tefcros Michaelides
Maths on a Plane (2008)
Phil Trinh
Echoes from the Past (2006)
Edward Michel-Bird
Diary of a Bad Year (2007)
John Maxwell Coetzee
Cocoon of Terror (2008)
Jason Earls
Dragon's Egg (1980)
Robert L. Forward
The Ganymede Club (1995)
Charles Sheffield
Of Mystery There Is No End (2002)
Leonard Michaels
Zéro, ou les Cinq vies d'Aemer (2005)
Denis Guedj

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