Series
Quark
Marilyn Hacker, Samuel R. Delany & Brian Vickers · 1 novella · 4 anthologies · 1970–1971
A quark is a type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter. Quarks combine to form composite particles called hadrons, the most stable of which are protons and neutrons, the components of atomic nuclei. All commonly observable matter is composed of up quarks, down quarks, and electrons. Owing to a phenomenon known as color confinement, quarks are never found in isolation; they can be found only within hadrons, which include baryons and mesons, or in quark–gluon plasmas. For this reason, much of what is known about quarks has been drawn from observations of hadrons.
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- 1970s5
Shape
1 novella · 4 anthologies
3 authors
reads like:science fictionidentityour worldlate 20th centurychallengingadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 50% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.