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Again, as explained to somebody woefully ignorant of any actual, y’know, science…

What are the real-world scientific underpinnings (weak and unrealistic as they might be) behind the general science-fiction conception of hyperspace/subspace?

Okay, so…

Every now and again, we see news articles about scientists having developed technology that could lead to teleportation, or (more likely) instant communication. It involves paired particles that, regardless of the distance between them, react in exactly the same way if one of the pair is subject to an outside force.

Can someone give me a more detailed description and explanation of this process, and the theory behind it? More importantly, it needs to be an explanation that’s at least mostly comprehensible by a layman who’s barely qualified to take a high school physics class. 😳

Can you point me toward any spec-fic short stories–sci-fi, fantasy, horror; specific genre doesn’t matter–that are less than 10K long (preferably less than 6K), but take place over multiple generations or historical periods?

Yeah, I know. Oddly specific. 😛 I have an idea for such a short story, but as I’ve never tried writing one like that, I’d like to see how other people have structured it.

Okay, so I’m mostly a fantasy and supernatural horror reader, but I’ve been on something of a sci-fi kick lately. Thing is, it’s been long enough since I read sci-fi regularly that I’m not sure what the good modern options are.

I’m a fan of Jack McDevitt and Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and I’m looking for more along those lines. That is, "harder" sci-fi than, say, Star Trek, but soft enough that it’s still character/plot-driven first (as opposed to being an examination of future tech/culture), and easily followed by someone who barely knows a nanobot from a megabyte. (The same touch of mystery one finds in McDevitt and Rusch is a plus, but not essential.)

So, go ahead. Sci-fi me up, baby.

Is it horribly egotistical of me to be so psyched that I actually have a page on Wikipedia now?

It’s not very comprehensive, but it’s there.

(And no, I didn’t write it myself. 😛 )