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Axiomatic by Egan, Greg
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
THE HUNDRED LIGHT YEAR DIARY - Scientists can bounce messages from the future back to the present, but there's no guarantee they'll tell the truth ... LEARNING TO BE ME - Crystalline minds may take the place of human brains, but where does the self really lie? CLOSER - Lovers exchange bodies and minds, ...Show more
Axiomatic: Short Stories of Science Fiction by Greg Egan
Category: Fiction
"Wonderful, mind-expanding stuff, and well written too." --The Guardian 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. F ...Show more
Diaspora by Egan, Greg
Category: Fiction
By the end of the second millennium, the human race has evolved into three distinct groups: conscious software programs known as citizens, sentient robots called gleisners and unaltered humans or fleshers. When a cosmic accident forces the evacuation of Earth, these three groups form a tentative allian ...Show more
Diaspora by Greg Egan
Category: Fiction
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: disposabl ...Show more
Distress by Greg Egan
Category: Fiction
"All right. He's dead. Go ahead and talk to him." It is the year 2055, and the battle of the sexes has seven combatants rather than two. "The illusion of empathy" has been dispensed with, and a few idealistic souls try to create a utopia with pirated technology. But a wired journalist, Andrew Worth, doe ...Show more
Incandescence by Greg Egan
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
A million years from now, the galaxy is divided between the vast, cooperative meta-civilisation known as the Amalgam, and the silent occupiers of the galactic core known as the Aloof. The Aloof have long rejected all attempts by the Amalgam to enter their territory, but have permitted travellers to take ...Show more
Incandescence by Greg Egan
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
A million years from now, the galaxy is divided between the vast, cooperative meta-civilisation known as the Amalgam, and the silent occupiers of the galactic core known as the Aloof. The Aloof have long rejected all attempts by the Amalgam to enter their territory, but have permitted travellers to take ...Show more
Oceanic by Greg Egan
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
Collected together here for the first time are twelve stories by the incomparable Greg Egan, one of the most exciting writers of science fiction working today. In these dozen glimpses into the future Egan continues to explore the essence of what it is to be human, and the nature of what - and who - we a ...Show more
Oceanic by Greg Egan
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
Collected together here for the first time are twelve stories by the incomparable Greg Egan, one of the most exciting writers of science fiction working today. In these dozen glimpses into the future Egan continues to explore the essence of what it is to be human, and the nature of what - and who - we a ...Show more
Perihelion Summer by Greg Egan
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
A story of people struggling to adapt to a suddenly alien environment, and the friendships and alliances they forge as they try to find their way in a world where the old maps have lost their meaning.Taraxippus is coming: a black hole one tenth the mass of the sun is about to enter the solar system.Matt ...Show more