Black Holes in the Earth

[andygates]

For some reason the zombie apocalypse just feels too damn survivable these days. I've developed a kink for black-holes-inside-the-Earth fiction, which is surely as niche as it gets.

The Forge of God - Greg Bear - Not strictly black holes but some truly awesome moments of utter, crushing, "oh feck"; tight tense countdownery; and a hugely memorable catastrophe more than make up for the weird aliens whose motivation never convinced me. Then again they are aliens.

The Krone Experiment - Craig Wheeler - A scientific wotdunnit dressed in Cold War atomic-brink thriller clothes. Sort of like a Michael Crighton, but with much better science and even stiffer characters (yes, it's possible). Good for the 1980's clichés as much as the science-geek spotter's guide to phenomena.  Mmm, Russians.

Can anyone recommend any more..?

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[despaer.livejournal.com]

Larry Niven did a number of short stories based upon the behaviour of neutron stars and black holes away back when, as in before Hawking radiation was first mooted. I have never actually got round to reading any though; let me know if they are any good...

Oh, I also remember a really bad docudrama called end day which presented a number of doomsday scenarios for modern earth (Yellowstone, SARS++ that kind of thing). The last scenario was the creation of strangelets inside a particle accelerator.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Mmm, strangelets :)