In one sense this is the most ambitious SF novel I've ever read. In every other it's kinda insipid. That one sense? The science! Generally, SF that isn't actually Engineering Fiction or (the very rare) Mathematics Fiction or Alternative History does its science by saying those scientific laws you kn...
I thought this had a lot of mediocre stories, with only a couple that were memorable and particularly interesting. I enjoyed the 22nd annual collection more.
When I read an Egan's book I cannot tackle it on a purely literary level. Egan's fiction makes me think about things I didn't know I wanted to think about. This is another one of those novels with a mind-boggling universe. NB: Ah! It feels good to be back at reviewing books… If you're into...
After reading the latest Egan’s work, I got thinking about the Caribbean Islands. I understand that the Caribbean Islands were discovered by successive explorers from Europe. I understand that Slaves from Africa were taken to these Islands as were White Indentured Workers, a polite name for White Sl...
The Four Thousand, The Eight Hundred by Greg Egan Egan is one of my go-to authors for thought-provoking stories. He has a gift for bringing "what-if" questions to life, and his novella The Four Thousand, The Eight Hundred is no exception. The story alternates between the asteroids Vesta and Cere...
Pronouns are a difficult part of the language to change, say the linguists. Nouns, easy. Verbs, easy enough. It took me a little while to get used to ve/vis/ver, but I eventually got the hang of it. But that was only the beginning. I would suggest that to read this book you need to be very adept at ...
The third and last book in Egan's Orthogonal trilogy, The Arrows of Time sees tensions mounting aboard the generation ship the Peerless (again), as a new messaging system is devised which can bring news from the future. A large minority of those aboard feel for one reason or another that this is a B...
In the sequel to The Clockwork Rocket (one of my favourite books of the year, because women doing science), the Peerless is already several generations into space. There's a population crisis going on: women starve themselves in the hope of only having two children (instead of the usual four). Carlo...
So I don't know if anyone's been following the shitstorm that was the Hugos this year, but anyone who thought the Puppies had even a shred of a point needs to read The Clockwork Rocket immediately. Because Egan's book is awesome (notwithstanding that heinous cover). The Clockwork Rocket is set i...
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