computer game Marathon 2: Durandal L.A. Graf, in the 1996 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel Time's Enemy Philip Pullman, in the 2000 novel The Amber Spyglass, part of the His Dark Materials trilogy. Neal Asher, in his Polity series of novels including Gridlinked (2001), in which the runcible, named in homage to the ansible, is an interstellar wormhole generator/teleporter Dan Simmons, in the 2003 novel Ilium Liu Cixin, in the 2008 trilogy Remembrance of Earth's Past Kim Stanley Robinson, in the 2012 novel 2312 Becky Chambers, in the 2014 novel The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Neon Yang, in the 2017 novella Waiting on a Bright Moon Joe M. McDermott, in the 2017 novel The Fortress at the End of Time Thomas Happ, in the 2021 console and PC video game Axiom Verge 2 See also Faster-than-light communication Interstellar communication No-cloning theorem Quantum entanglement Tachyon Tachyonic antitelephone References Further reading Faster-than-light communication Fictional technology