Books on Space Opera Sci-Fi and More from Author Greg Egan

Title: Axiomatic

Axiomatic is a wonderful collection of eighteen short stories by Hugo Award-winning author Greg Egan. The stories in this collection have appeared in such science fiction magazines as Interzone and Asimov's between 1989 and 1992.

Author(s): Greg Egan

ISBN 13: 9781597805407
Pages: 384

Title: Incandescence

The long-awaited new novel from Greg Egan! Hugo Award-winning author Egan returns to the field with Incandescence, a new novel of hard SF.
The Amalgam spans nearly the entire galaxy, and is composed of innumerable beings from a wild variety of races, some human or near it, some entirely other. The one place that they cannot go is the bulge, the bright, hot center of the galaxy. There dwell the Aloof, who for millions of years have deflected any and all attempts to communicate with or visit them. So when Rakesh is offered an opportunity to travel within their sphere, in search of a lost race, he cannot turn it down.
Roi is a member of that lost race, which is not only lost to the Amalgam, but lost to itself. In their world, there is but toil, and history and science are luxuries that they can ill afford.
Rakesh's journey will take him across millennia and light years. Roi's will take her across vistas of learning and discovery just as vast.

Author(s): Greg Egan

ISBN 13: 9781597801294
Pages: 256

Title: Permutation City

Is this what we really want? From the brilliant mind of Greg Egan, Permutation City, first published in 1994, comes a world of wonder that makes you ask if you are you, or is the Copy of you the real you?

Author(s): Greg Egan

ISBN 13: 9781597805391
Pages: 320

Title: Schilds Ladder

Tchicaya and his spaceship Rindler are the center of a scientific study of a newly created vacuum in space.

Author(s): Greg Egan

ISBN 13: 9781597805445
Pages: 320

Title: Diaspora

A quantum Brave New World from the boldest and most wildly speculative writer of his generation.

Author(s): Greg Egan

ISBN 13: 9781597805421
Pages: 352

Title: The Eternal Flame

Author(s): Greg Egan

ISBN 13: 9781597802949

Title: Luminous

Author(s): Egan, Greg

ISBN 13: 9780575082083

Title: Dark Integers and Other Stories

Author(s): Egan, Greg

ISBN 13: 9781596062191

Title: Oceanic

Author(s): Egan, Greg

ISBN 13: 9780575086548

Title: Quarantine

Originally published: London: Legend, 1992.

Author(s): Greg Egan

ISBN 13: 9781597805384
Pages: 224

Title: The Clockwork Rocket

In Yalda's universe, light has no universal speed and its creation generates energy. On Yalda's world, plants make food by emitting their own light into the dark night sky. As a child, Yalda witnesses one of a series of strange meteors, the Hurtlers, that are entering the planetary system at an immense, unprecedented speed. It becomes apparent that her world is in imminent danger - and the task of dealing with the Hurtlers will require knowledge and technology far beyond anything her civilization has yet achieved! Only one solution seems tenable: if a spacecraft can be sent on a journey at sufficiently high speed, its trip will last many generations for those on board, but it will return after just a few years have passed at home. The travelers will have a chance to discover the science their planet urgently needs, and bring it back in time to avert disaster.

Author(s): Greg Egan

ISBN 13: 9781597802925
Pages: 344

Title: Zendegi

In the near future, journalist Martin Seymour travels to Iran to cover the parliamentary elections. Most would-be opposition candidates are disqualified and the election becomes the non-event the world expects. But shortly afterward a compromising image of a government official captured on a mobile phone triggers a revolutionary movement that overthrows the old theocracy. Nasim Golestani, a young Iranian scientist living in exile in the United States, is hoping to work on the Human Connectome Project - which aims to construct a detailed map of the wiring of the human brain - but when government funding for the project is canceled and a chance comes to return to her homeland, she chooses to head back to Iran.
Fifteen years after the revolution, Martin is living in Iran with his wife and young son, while Nasim is in charge of the virtual world known as Zendegi, used by millions of people for entertainment and business. When Zendegi comes under threat from powerful competitors, Nasim draws on her old skills, and data from the now-completed Human Connectome Project, to embark on a program to create more lifelike virtual characters and give the company an unbeatable edge. As controversy grows over the nature and rights of these software characters, tragedy strikes Martin's family. Martin turns to Nasim, seeking a solution that no one else can offer... but Zendegi is about to become a battlefield.

Author(s): Greg Egan

ISBN 13: 9781597801751
Pages: 300

Title: Distress

As the Distress outbreak continues to mysteriously grow, Worth must race to find the truth behind The Theory of Everything, and what the implications of Mosala's work could mean for humanity.

Author(s): Greg Egan

ISBN 13: 9781597805414
Pages: 400

Title: Teranesia

Prabir Suresh lives in paradise, a nine-year-old boy with an island all his own to name, explore, and to populate with imaginary monsters stranger than any tropical wildlife. Teranesia is his kingdom, shared only with his biologist parents and baby sister, Madhusree. The unexplained genetic mutation of the island's butterflies that brought his family to the remote South Moluccas barely touches Prabir; his own life revolves around beaches, the jungle, and the schooling and friendships made possible by the net.. "When civil war breaks out across Indonesia, this paradise comes to a violent end and his family is broken apart, leaving Prabir with nagging feelings of guilt and an overwhelming, almost irrational, sense of responsibility for his sister. The mystery of the butterflies remains unsolved, but nearly twenty years later reports begin to appear of strange new species of plants and animals appearing throughout the region - species separated from their known cousins by recent, dramatic mutations that seem far too efficient and funtional to have arisen by chance from pollution, disease, or any other random catastrophe.. "Madhusree is now a biology student; proud of her parents' unacknowledged work, and with no memories of the trauma of war to discourage her, she decides to join a multinational expedition being mounted to investigate the new phenomenon. Unable to cast off his fears for her safety, Prabir reluctantly follows her. But travel between the scattered islands is difficult, and Madhusree's expedition is out of contact. In the hope of finding her, Prabir joins up with an independent scientist, Martha Grant, who has come to search for clues to the evolutionary mystery andwhatever commercial benefits it might bring to her sponsor. As Prabir and Martha begin to untangle the secret of Teranesia, Prabir is forced to confront his past, and to face the painful realities that have shaped his life while also dealing with the implicati

Author(s): Greg Egan

ISBN 13: 9780061059803
Pages: 352

Title: Our Lady of Chernobyl [Cover Art and Illustrations by Shaun Tan]

Author(s): Egan, Greg

ISBN 13: 9780646232300