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Permutation City
The incredible, mind-bending look at cyberspace, afterlife and immortality from one of the greats of science fiction
Av Greg Egan
Häftad, 2008
144 kr
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Immortality can be yours . . . at a pricePermutation city is the tale of a man with a vision - how to create immortality - and how that vision becomes grows beyond his control. Encompassing the lives and struggles of an artificial life junkie desperate to save her dying mother, a billionaire banker …
Diaspora
The dark, post-apocalyptic thriller perfect for fans of BLACK MIRROR and Philip K. Dick
Av Greg Egan
E-bok, 2010
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
11 kr
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After the extinction of humans, how do you define humanity? 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 …
Permutation City
The incredible, mind-bending look at cyberspace, afterlife and immortality from one of the greats of science fiction
Av Greg Egan
E-bok, 2010
45 kr
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Immortality can be yours . . . at a price Permutation city is the tale of a man with a vision - how to create immortality - and how that vision becomes grows beyond his control. Encompassing the lives and struggles of an artificial life junkie desperate to save her dying mother, a billionaire …
Diaspora
The dark, post-apocalyptic thriller perfect for fans of BLACK MIRROR and Philip K. Dick
Av Greg Egan
Häftad, 2008
148 kr
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After the extinction of humans, how do you define humanity?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 …
Best of Greg Egan
Av Greg Egan
Häftad, 2021
220 kr
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Greg Egan is arguably Australia's greatest living science fiction writer. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he has produced a steady stream of novels and stories that address a wide range of scientific and philosophical concerns: artificial intelligence, higher mathematics, science vs …
Schild's Ladder
Av Greg Egan
Häftad, 2008
144 kr
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Cass has stumbled on something that might be an entirely different type of physics, and she's travelled three hundred and fifty light-years to Mimosa Station, a remote experimental facility, to test her theory. The novo-vacuum she creates is predicted to begin decaying the instant it's created, but …
Permutation City
A Novel
Av Greg Egan
Häftad, 2014
289 kr
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“Egan is determined to make sense of everything – to understand the whole world as an intelligible, rational, material (and finally manipulable) realm – even if it means abandoning comfortable and comforting illusions. This is fundamental to the whole project of SF and it’s why Egan’s Best – and …
Distress
Av Greg Egan
Häftad, 2008
429 kr
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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 …
Diaspora
A Novel
Av Greg Egan
Häftad, 2015
348 kr
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A quantum Brave New World from the boldest and most wildly speculative writer of his generation. “Greg Egan is perhaps the most important SF writer in the world."—Science Fiction Weekly "One of the very best "—Locus. "Science fiction with an emphasis on science."—New York Times Book ReviewSince the …
Incandescence
Av Greg Egan
Häftad, 2009
316 kr
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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 …
Quarantine
Av Greg Egan
Häftad, 2008
144 kr
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It's late in the 21st century and bioengineering is now so common that people are able to modify their minds in any way they wish. It is an era which has been shaped by information systems so vast that security, in any form, is easily breached. Now you can be whatever you want to be, and do …
Axiomatic
Av Greg Egan
Häftad, 2008
144 kr
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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 …
Luminous
Av Greg Egan
Häftad, 2008
316 kr
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LUMINOUS collects together one original story plus nine previously unpublished in book form. Greg Egan's short fiction is at the cutting edge of the genre. His stories range from near future predictions to far future, far space improvisations. His grasp of the latest scientific breakthroughs is …
Zendegi
Av Greg Egan
Häftad, 2011
316 kr
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Nasim is a young computer scientist, hoping to work on the Human Connectome Project: a plan to map every neural connection in the human brain. But funding for the project is cancelled, and Nasim ends up devoting her career to Zendegi, a computerised virtual world used by millions of people.Fifteen …
Zendegi
Av Greg Egan
E-bok, 2010
44 kr
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Nasim is a young computer scientist, hoping to work on the Human Connectome Project: a plan to map every neural connection in the human brain. But funding for the project is cancelled, and Nasim ends up devoting her career to Zendegi, a computerised virtual world used by millions of people. Fifteen …
Oceanic
Av Greg Egan
Häftad, 2010
169 kr
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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 - …
Oceanic
Av Greg Egan
E-bok, 2009
45 kr
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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 - …
Incandescence
Av Greg Egan
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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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 …
Clockwork Rocket
Orthogonal Book One
Av Greg Egan
Häftad, 2012
373 kr
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In Yalda's universe, light has mass, no universal speed, and its creation generates energy; on Yalda's world, plants make food by emitting light into the dark night sky. And time is different: an astronaut might measure decades passing while visiting another star, only to return and find that just …
Clockwork Rocket
Orthogonal Book One
Av Greg Egan
E-bok, 2011
39 kr
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In Yalda''s universe, light has mass, no universal speed, and its creation generates energy; on Yalda''s world, plants make food by emitting light into the dark night sky. And time is different: an astronaut might measure decades passing while visiting another star, only to return and find that …
Axiomatic
Av Greg Egan
E-bok, 2010
45 kr
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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 …
Quarantine
Av Greg Egan
E-bok, 2010
45 kr
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It''s late in the 21st century and bioengineering is now so common that people are able to modify their minds in any way they wish. It is an era which has been shaped by information systems so vast that security, in any form, is easily breached. Now you can be whatever you want to be, and do …
Distress
Av Greg Egan
E-bok, 2010
44 kr
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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 …
Luminous
Av Greg Egan
E-bok, 2010
45 kr
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LUMINOUS collects together one original story plus nine previously unpublished in book form. Greg Egan''s short fiction is at the cutting edge of the genre. His stories range from near future predictions to far future, far space improvisations. His grasp of the latest scientific breakthroughs is …
Teranesia
Av Greg Egan
E-bok, 2010
44 kr
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As a young boy, Prabir Suresh lives with his parents and sister on an otherwise uninhabited island in a remote part of the Indonesian peninsula. Prabir names it Teranesia, populating it with imaginary creatures even stranger than the evolutionarily puzzling butterflies that his parents are …
Schild's Ladder
Av Greg Egan
E-bok, 2010
45 kr
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Cass has stumbled on something that might be an entirely different type of physics, and she''s travelled three hundred and fifty light-years to Mimosa Station, a remote experimental facility, to test her theory. The novo-vacuum she creates is predicted to begin decaying the instant it''s created, …
Eternal Flame
Orthogonal Book Two
Av Greg Egan
Häftad, 2013
332 kr
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The generation ship Peerless is suffering from a population explosion, and the only way to reduce the number of children is by drastically limiting the females' food intake. So population control consists of two barbaric choices: starvation, or suicide.Trying to find a better way, a biologist …
Eternal Flame
Orthogonal Book Two
Av Greg Egan
E-bok, 2012
45 kr
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The generation ship Peerless is suffering from a population explosion, and the only way to reduce the number of children is by drastically limiting the females'' food intake. So population control consists of two barbaric choices: starvation, or suicide. Trying to find a better way, a biologist …
Arrows of Time
Orthogonal Book Three
Av Greg Egan
Häftad, 2014
316 kr
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In an alien universe where space and time play by different rules, interstellar voyages last longer for the travellers than for those they left behind. After six generations in flight, the inhabitants of the mountain-sized spacecraft the Peerless have used their borrowed time to develop advanced …
