Books in Order: S.F. MASTERWORKS by Greg Egan
On the barren surface of an asteroid, located deep in the galaxy beneath the unbearable light of the Kefahuchi Tract, lie three objects: an abandoned spacecraft, a pair of bone dice covered with strange symbols, and a human skeleton. What they are and what they mean are the mysteries explored… Read More
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something wiped out the Amarantin. For the human colonists now settling the Amarantin homeworld Resurgam, it's of little more than academic interest, even after the discovery of a long-hidden, almost perfect Amarantin city and a colossal statue of a winged Amarantin. For brilliant but ruthless… Read More
Meet The Author: Greg Egan
Greg Egan (1961-) Greg Egan lives in Perth, Western Australia. He is a mathematician and has produced record-breaking research on supermutations. He has won the John W. Campbell award for Best Novel for Permutation City, and Oceanic was awarded a Hugo, a Locus and an Asimov’s Readers’ award. His work has also won the Japanese Seiun Award for best translated fiction seven times.
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The Arrows of Time
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.…
The Eternal Flame
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…
The Clockwork Rocket
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…
Incandescence
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…
Permutation City
The story of a man with a vision - immortality : for those who can afford it is found in cyberspace. Permutation city is the…
Quarantine
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.…
Schild's Ladder
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,…