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Report on an Unidentified Space Station

https://sseh.uchicago.edu/doc/roauss.htm
52•paulmooreparks•3h ago

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swiftcoder•1h ago
Always loved this one
iamjs•1h ago
Reminds me of Borges
internet_points•1h ago
And Piranesi

And House of Leaves

throw310822•46m ago
Annoying nitpick:

> Our solar system and its planets, the millions of other solar systems that constitute our galaxy, and the island universes themselves all lie within the boundaries of the station. The station is coeval with the cosmos [...]

> Estimated diameter: 15,000 light years.

Uhmm..

Yes I know, the entire construction is not striving for realism and neither should be taken literally.

swiftcoder•18m ago
Pretty sure this is a Tardis bigger-on-the-inside situation
dtj1123•1m ago
Then where is the 15k lightyears figure supposed to come from?
rullelito•46m ago
I didn't get anything out of this. Felt very simple and not very mind-bending. Should I feel something?
andyjohnson0•18m ago
Its an almost 45 year-old short story that appeared in a print collection of other short stories. The submitted page kind of loses much of that context - and possibly feels dated or simplistic because of that?
hootz•45m ago
Making a modern analogy, reading this feels kinda similar to reading about the Backrooms, but with a bigger, existential dread. Amazing.
anax32•39m ago
This was a big moment for me, but I now believe it's fictional.

Thanks Ballard

ShadowOfThePit•38m ago
Reads like an early SCP exploration log.

Although, I'm not sure if I get it. They end up making a religion out of it, but does that have a deeper meaning?

rfarley04•37m ago
Tower of Babel by Ted Chiang is another comparison worth mentioning
Hackbraten•28m ago
I can recommend the excellent novels Concrete Island [0] and High-Rise [1] from the same author.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_Island

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Rise_(novel)

bb123•26m ago
I feel this should have a note that it's fictional in the title. I clicked this expecting to read about some kind of space race development with China or Russia.
embedding-shape•25m ago
I mean it's pretty obvious from the very first paragraph, isn't it?

> By good luck we have been able to make an emergency landing on this uninhabited space station. There have been no casualties. We all count ourselves fortunate to have found safe haven at a moment when the expedition was clearly set on disaster.

Lots of short stories on HN have just their original title with nothing like [Novella] or whatever, seems fine.

fartfeatures•9m ago
Sure but isn't that the definition of clickbait?
cl3misch•24m ago
> Our voices echoed away into a bottomless pit [of the elevator shaft]

Would voices actually "echo away" in a literally bottomless pit?

refsab•5m ago
The bottom of the bottomless pit is just a regular pit?
nickdothutton•23m ago
We all live in Ballard's future now. I encourage you to check out some of his interviews on YT.
andyjohnson0•22m ago
For context, Ballard wrote this in 1982.
lupire•8m ago
Flagged for misleading title
Hugsbox•4m ago
Really enjoyed reading this, but kind of lost on what the deeper meaning might have been, if any.
t23414321•4m ago
it's fictional

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Report on an Unidentified Space Station

https://sseh.uchicago.edu/doc/roauss.htm
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