3-adica

Illustration for the story "3-adica" by Greg Egan

Cover art for September-October 2018 issueof "Asimov's Science Fiction" Magazine, Volume 42, Numbers 9 & 10.

Done in June 2018

The Mandala image is based on the Art by Lily A. Seidel

Enter your text here...The story opens with someone named Sagreda walking around a fog-bound London during the 19th century in the body of a young man even though Sagreda is female. The setting is based on a book called Midnight on Baker Street and she eventually connects with a friend of hers named Mathis who is a vampire in this world. She needs to accumulate certain colors to for a Graphics Processing Unit to get where she needs to go. She has various adventures in this Midnight world to a place called 3-adica which is related to p-adic geometry (which we get a crash course in). She also winds up in a desert world as some kind of horse creature (that has no name) until the conclusion. Interesting settings and characters but it might be a bit rough if you know nothing of p-adic geometry. © sfrevu.com