Distances Volume 23 in the Conversation Pieces Series

Distances, a story of science, art, and deception, is fascinating far-future science fiction, set in a far-future desert city. When mathematicians from the planet Tirana, 18-light-years-distant, ask Anasuya's help in solving a series of equations, she finds the new geometrical space they present her with intriguing. But as she explores the new space, she soon comes to suspect that it represents an actual physical system, and that the equations she is being asked to solve have a significance the Tiranis are concealing.