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From the electronic frontier to the wilder shores of hard physics, Greg Egan's new collection is powerful, shocking and unmissable!
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Praise for Incandescence: This strange, enthralling work is a major achievement from Australia's top sci-fi writer and will be discussed and dissected for quite some time." [The Sydney Morning Herald]; Egan paints an entertaining and intriguing tale of different cultures and technologies. [Good Reading] Quest story meets scientific method, with the true stars the sexy ideas. Egan writes the most intellectual fiction in Australia. [The Sunday Age] Greg Egan is the eponymous incandescent Aussie hard SF author... a tour-de-force of scientific extrapolation. [Antipodean]; Greg Egan has established a well-deserved reputation as one of the foremost practitioners of hard science fiction. [Andromeda]
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'Egan is renowned for bringing the most abstract concepts of physics and philosophy to life, and these diamond-hard science fiction stories ably showcase his talent' says PUBLISHERS WEEKLY of this collection, which blends adventure with mind-boggling mathematics and science. Among the stories are: 'Dark Integers', in which two academics-turned-spies fight off deadly incursions from a mathematical realm that could unravel our own universe. Mathematical secrets are also the key to an ancient mystery and a modern war in 'Glory', while fans of INCANDESCENCE, Egan's new novel, learn more about the Aloof in 'Riding the Crocodile', which details the millennia-long efforts of a pair of scientists to understand the mysterious race living in the heart of the Milky Way. It also includes the Hugo-winning novella 'Oceanic', which looks at a far-future colony where science and religion have collided in faith-shattering ways.Egan, the author of some of the most surprising and intuitive short fiction in the genre, has the almost unique ability to help his readers to get their heads around some pretty mind-bending concepts without dumbing them down or blinding them with science that's quite a feat.And as one Amazon reviewer said, Egan is quite a writer!
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- PublisherGollancz
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0575086521
- ISBN 13 9780575086524
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages496
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Book Description Paperback: 9¼" x 6". Condition: As New: An unread, like new, b. Cover Art: Dee Breger / Science Photo Library (illustrator). 2009 Edition. © 2009: A collection of 12 short stories by Greg Egan. 1st printing of 2009 edition. Accompanied by Gollancz Press Release (slight damage) for this 1st edition Trade Paperback:- Contents: Lost Continent / Dark Integers / Crystal Nights / Steve Fever / Induction / Singleton / Oracle / Border Guards / Riding The Crocodile / Glory / Hot Rock / Oceanic:- Synopsis: Collected together 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 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 are, in stories that range from parables of contemporary human conflict and ambition to far-future tales of our immortal descendants. Return to the universe of the meta-civilisation known as the Amalgam, which Egan explored in his critically acclaimed novel 'Incandescence': 'Riding The Crocodile', which recounts an epic endeavour a million years from now to bridge the divide between the Amalgam and the reclusive Aloof; 'Glory', set in the same future, in which two archaeologists strive to decipher the artefacts of an ancient civilisation, and 'Hot Rock', where an obscure, sunless world conceals mind-spinning technological marvels, bitter factional struggles, and a many-layered secret history. This superb collection also includes the title story, the Hugo Award-winning 'Oceanic': a boy is inducted into a religion that becomes the centre of his life, but as an adult he must face evidence that casts a new light on his faith. 'Oceanic': travel into the worlds of the future in the hands of a master craftsman:- Review(s): "One of the most ambitious, startling, dextrous writers the SF field can boast of. A mature, distinctive voice arising out of the monotonous publishing wilderness" - Asimov's SF Magazine / "The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan" - New Scientist / "Egan is perhaps the most exciting SF writer at work today" - Daily Telegraph:- (original cost £12.99). Seller Inventory # 18.005.00048
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