The Planck Dive

"The Planck Dive" is a science fiction novelette by Australian writer Greg Egan, published in 1998.

It was nominated for the 1999 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.

Plot summary
The story is set in the polis known as Cartan Null, where five explorers are preparing to send cloned copies of themselves on a scientific journey into a black hole. As they are about to make the dive a biographer from Earth and his daughter arrive with intentions of writing their story.

Publication history
After the story's initial publication in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in February 1998 it was included in the author's short story collection Luminous later in 1998''