Greg Egan
1) Diaspora
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English
Description
A quantum Brave New World from the boldest and most wildly speculative writer of his generation. Since the Introdus in the twenty-first century, humanity has reconfigured itself drastically. Most chose immortality, joining the polises to become conscious software. Others opted for gleisners: disposable, renewable robotic bodies that remain in contact with the physical world of force and friction. Many of these have left the solar system forever in...
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Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
©2016, ©2015
Language
English
Description
Camille is desperate to escape her home on colonized asteroid Vesta, journeying through space in a small cocoon pod covertly and precariously attached to a cargo ship. Anna is a newly appointed port director on asteroid Ceres, intrigued by the causes that have led so-called riders like Camille to show up at her post in search of asylum. Conditions on Vesta are quickly deteriorating - for one group of people in particular. The original founders agreed...
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English
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What happens when your digital self overpowers your physical self? A life in Permutation City is unlike any life to which you're accustomed. You have Eternal Life, the power to live forever. Immortality is a real thing, just not the thing you'd expect. Life is just electronic code. You have been digitized, scanned, and downloaded into a virtual reality program. A Copy of a Copy. For Paul Durham, he keeps making Copies of himself, but the issue is...
Author
Series
Orthogonal volume 1
Publisher
Night Shade
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"In Yalda's universe, light has no universal speed and its creation generates energy. On Yalda's world, plants make food by emitting their own light into the dark night sky. As a child, Yalda witnesses one of a series of strange meteors, the Hurtlers, that are entering the planetary system at an immense, unprecedented speed. It becomes apparent that her world is in imminent danger--and the task of dealing with the Hurtlers will require knowledge and...
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Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Axiomatic is a wonderful collection of eighteen short stories by Hugo Award-winning author Greg Egan. The stories in this collection have appeared in such science fiction magazines as Interzone and Asimov's between 1989 and 1992. From junkies who drink at the time-stream to love affairs in time-reversed galaxies; from gene-altered dolphins that converse only in limericks to the program that allows you to design your own child; from the brain implants...
9) Phoresis
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Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
As the conditions necessary to sustain life on Tvíbura grow erratic, the populace attempts two monumental geoengineering projects that will span generations: rejuvenating the ecosphere and building a literal bridge to Tvíbura's uninhabited twin planet, Tvíburi.
10) Incandescence
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Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"The Amalgam spans the nearly entire galaxy, and is composed of innumerable beings from a wild variety of races, some human or near it, some entirely other. The one place that they cannot go is the bulge, the bright, hot center of the galaxy. There dwell the Aloof, who for millions of years have deflected any and all attempts to communicate with or visit them. So when Rakesh is offered an opportunity to travel within their sphere, in search of a lost...
12) Dispersion
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Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This latest novella from Greg Egan, Australia's reigning master of hard, rigorous SF, is an astonishment and a delight. With great economy and precision, it tells the story of an unprecedented new disease--the Dispersion of the title--and its effects on both individual sufferers and the fragmented social structure they inhabit."--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Orthogonal volume 3
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Aboard the ship Peerless, the travelers have completed work on technology to save their homeworld, but when they realize they can construct a messaging system that will give the Peerless news of its own future, tension and violence mount.
14) Zendegi
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Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"In the near future, journalist Martin Seymour travels to Iran to cover the parliamentary elections. Most would-be opposition candidates are disqualified and the election becomes the non-event the world expects. But shortly afterward a compromising image of a government official captured on a mobile phone triggers a revolutionary movement that overthrows the old theocracy. Nasim Golestani, a young Iranian scientist living in exile in the United States,...
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Series
Orthogonal volume 2
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"The generation ship Peerless is in search of advanced technology capable of sparing their home planet from imminent destruction. In theory, the ship is traveling fast enough that it can traverse the cosmos for generations, and still return home only a few years after they departed. But a critical fuel shortage threatens to cut their urgent voyage short, even as a population explosion stretches the ship's life-support capacity to its limits. When...
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Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
An adventure novel on a group of scientists whose work threatens to alter the universe. The hero is a science reporter with an implanted camera and the story features a world with five sexes. By an Australian writer, author of Permutation City.
18) Teranesia
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Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Madhusree Suresh is following in the footsteps of her biologist parents and is determined to continue their research into unexplained genetic mutations along Teranesia's butterflies. Madhusree's brother, Prabir, teams up with independent scientist Martha Grant to follow Madhusree.