big giant list of maths-oriented fiction

foreverdirt, have you seen the big giant list of maths-oriented fiction? Well, if not, it's here.

I don't normally go cruising for maths related fiction - maths tends to make my brain cells squeak alarmingly - but I was hoping that someone had done a drawing of how the sun appears to the inhabitants of the city in Christopher Priest’s Inverted World. I imagine it as a disc with two long curving arcs coming off it, not unlike the shape of a spiral galaxy. It’s an interesting book; I couldn’t decide whether he was doing the very naïve style on purpose or not. Helman Mann’s POV was deeply unsatisfying in some parts - there never seemed to be any emotional weight to him, as though we were being told this tale from the viewpoint of a man who never looked below the surface of anything.

It’s the sort of book where the idea is the hero, and the idea is wonderful. For the first half especially, the main character was plainly a device for conveying the idea. The last quarter of the book comes alive, where we see things through Elizabeth’s eyes. I was fascinated and annoyed in equal measure.