The Planck Dive

"The Planck Dive" is a science fiction novelette by Australian writer Greg Egan, published in 1998.
It was nominated for the 1999 Hugo [Award for Best Novelette].

Plot summary

The story is set in the polis known as Cartan Null, where five explorers are preparing to send cloned copies of themselves on a scientific journey into a black hole. As they are about to make the dive a biographer from Earth and his daughter arrive with intentions of writing their story.

Publication history

After the story's initial publication in Isaac [Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine] in February 1998 it was included in the author's short story collection Luminous later in 1998.