PhysicsSpeculative novel layers Groundhog Day with existential dreaminess Solvej Balle's newly translated speculative novel, On the Calculation of Volume (parts I and II), examines the numbing effects of time through the old trope of being stuck in a single day. It is an effective meditation Culture
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