Greg Egan is a world leader in hard SF, with a critical reputation second to none. A riveting story underpinned by cutting-edge scientific extrapolation 'One of the genre's great ideas men' THE TIMES 'The universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan' NEW SCIENTIST 'It is one of Egan's great skills that he makes the passion of science appear understandable, even inevitable, to non-scientists' FOUNDATION
This collection of short stories ranges from bio-engineering to the wilder shores of physics and from cyberpunk to the electronic frontier. Titles include 'The Hundred Light Year Diary', 'Closer' and 'Learning to be Me'.
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Greg Egan is a world leader in hard SF, with a critical reputation second to none. A riveting story underpinned by cutting-edge scientific extrapolation 'One of the genre's great ideas men' THE TIMES 'The universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan' NEW SCIENTIST 'It is one of Egan's great skills that he makes the passion of science appear understandable, even inevitable, to non-scientists' FOUNDATION
This collection of short stories ranges from bio-engineering to the wilder shores of physics and from cyberpunk to the electronic frontier. Titles include 'The Hundred Light Year Diary', 'Closer' and 'Learning to be Me'.
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AXIOMATIC is a collection of eighteen short stories including;
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, but their experiments go just that little bit too far, proving that you can have too much of a good thing...About the Author
Greg Egan lives in Perth, Western Australia. He has won the John W Campbell award for Best Novel and has been shortlisted for the Hugo three times.
Previous titles:Schild's Ladder;Teranesia;Quarantine;Luminous;Axiomatic;Permutation City;Diaspora;DistressAXIOMATIC is a collection of eighteen short stories including;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, but their experiments go just that little bit too far, proving that you can have too much of a good thing...
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