@inbook{187d2640692f4c929c2e866fc9e7c995,
title = "'The Sixteenth Tessellation'",
abstract = "Story about a mathematician and her sister investigating a so-called Big Dumb Object in space.",
keywords = "Science Fiction, Creative Writing",
author = "Val Nolan",
note = "Val Nolan is a Science Fiction author and academic who holds a PhD in contemporary literature and has taught university level literature and creative practice for fifteen years. He is the author of Neil Jordan: Works for the Page (UCC Press, 2022) and co-author of Spec Fic for Newbies Volume 1 (Luna Press Publishing, 2023), as well as academic articles in Science Fiction Studies, Foundation, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comic Books, Irish University Review, Irish Studies Review, symplokē, and Dictionary of Literary Biography. A Clarion graduate (2009), his fiction has appeared in Year{\textquoteright}s Best Science Fiction, Best of British Science Fiction, Unidentified Funny Objects, ParSec, Opulent Syntax, the {\textquoteleft}Futures{\textquoteright} page of Nature, Andromeda Spaceways, and Interzone (for which he also writes the {\textquoteleft}Folded Spaces{\textquoteright} column about the history of Science Fiction criticism). He has been shortlisted for the Theodore Sturgeon Award (for his story {\textquoteleft}The Irish Astronaut{\textquoteright}) and twice been a finalist for the BSFA Awards. He is currently a research fellow at Aberystwyth University in Wales where he was awarded Lecturer of the Year in 2022.",
year = "2024",
month = apr,
language = "English",
volume = "94",
pages = "75--90",
booktitle = "Andromeda Spaceways Magazine",
publisher = "Andromeda Spaceways Magazine",
}