Psychohistorical Crisis by Donald Kingsbury

[james_davis_nicoll]

Convicted and executed for an unspeakable crime, Eron Osa must now determine what he will do with the rest of his life.

Psychohistorical Crisis by Donald Kingsbury

Comments

[austin_dern]

Sorry, I just noticed this. Non-consensus theory about the origins of units of length? That sounds like an intriguing story.

[patrick_morris_miller]

It at least used to be discussed on his web site, in all its 1995 web design (engineering undergraduate impenetrableness and eyesore color scheme) glory.

[(Anonymous)]

Ancients understood that pendulums period depended on length and angle, and set their units based on periods derived from the sidereal period of the Earth