Greg Egan crea narrative di fantascienza hard science fiction che approfondiscono l'ontologia matematica e quantistica, esplorando la natura stessa della coscienza. Le sue storie indagano temi come la genetica, la realtà simulata, il postumanesimo, il trasferimento della mente, la sessualità e l'intelligenza artificiale. Egan è celebrato per il suo approccio approfondito e intransigente a materiale complesso e altamente tecnico, introducendo spesso fisica ed epistemologia innovative. La sua visione distintiva spinge i confini dell'esistenza e della realtà umana.
This is a collection of short stories from the author of "Permutation City" and "Distress". The stories deal with such topics as time-travelling messages, crystalline brains, DIY bioengineering, and body and mind exchange.
Twenty of the very best stories and novellas from the award-winning master storyteller and rigorous, exploratory thinker, Greg Egan.
The nine stories in Greg Egan's new collection range from parables of contemporary human conflict and ambition to far-future tales of our immortal descendants.In "Lost Continent", a time traveler seeking refuge from a war-torn land faces hostility and bureaucratic incompetence. "Crystal Nights" portrays a driven man s moral compromises as he chases an elusive technological breakthrough, while in "Steve Fever" the technology itself falls victim to its own hype."TAP" brings us a new kind of poetry, where a word is more powerful than a thousand images. "Singleton" shows us a new kind of child, born of human DNA modeled in a quantum computer who, in "Oracle", journeys to a parallel world to repay a debt to an intellectual ancestor."Induction" chronicles the methods and motives behind humanity s first steps to the stars. "Border Guards" reflects on the painful history of a tranquil utopia. And in the final story, "Hot Rock", two immortal citizens of the galaxy-spanning Amalgam find that an obscure, sunless world conceals mind-spinning technological marvels, bitter factional struggles, and a many-layered secret history.Greg Egan is the author of seven novels and over fifty short stories. He is a winner of the Hugo Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
After generations of travel, the spaceship Peerless may finally have achieved its goal - but the decision to return home may create more tensions than ever before.
A modern masterpiece from 'One of the genre's great ideas men' (THE TIMES) nelwy packaged for a new audience
In the 30th century, most people have chosen immortality, joining the polises to become conscious software. Others have opted for robot bodies, while some holdouts remain "fleshers." And then there's the Orphan, a genderless digital being grown from a mind seed. It's up to the Orphan and a group of refugees to find the knowledge that will save inhabitants from extinction.
Classic hard science fiction from a master. The generation ship Peerless is running out of space, and fuel - and prospects for survival ...
On the utopian, man-made island, Stateless, Nobel Prize winner Violet Mosala is close to solving the greatest problem of her career - the quest for the ultimate Theory of Everything (TOE) is almost over. Burned out by recording the abuses of biotech for his TV news syndicate, Andrew Worth grabs the chance to follow Violet's story. In contrast the world of theoretical physics seems like an anaesthetised mathematical heaven, where everything is cool and abstract. He could not have been more wrong. One by one Mosala's rival quantum physicists are disappearing from the scientific summit at Stateless. But why? Is it something to do with Violet herself, or is there some other, more esoteric, force at work undermining the Theory of Everything Conference?
From the electronic frontier to the wilder shores of hard physics, Greg Egan's new collection is powerful, shocking and unmissable!
A stunning collection of ground-breaking sf stories from a master of the genre