Hole Man, The

Publication date: 
1974-01
Publication type: 
Short Story
Published: 
Analog, January 1974
Opus No.: 
70
Setting: 
Stand Alone
Characters: 
Andrew Lear; Captain Childrey
Awards: 
Hugo winner
Summary: 

An abandoned alien base is discovered by the first Mars Mission. The Martians are long goneā€”but the technology to contain the power of a quantum-sized black hole still remains.

Notes: 

Quantum Black Hole as a murder weapon

Reprints: 

Reprints Characters Awards Notes anthology, The Best Science Fiction of the Year #4, edited by Terry Carr; anthology, The Hugo Winners, Volume 3, edited by Isaac Asimov; anthology, Black Holes, edited by Jerry Pournelle; textbook, with commentary, Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology, the SFWA-SFRA anthology, ed. Patricia S. Warrick, Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph D. Olander, Harper & Row 1978; The Best of Analog, ed. Ben Bova, Baronet 1978; Ascent of Wonder, ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, Tor 1994; Hole in Space, A; N-Space; Best of Larry Niven, The; De Stranden Van Serius Vier