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Books by Greg Egan

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Quarantine

by Greg Egan · published 1992 · read 2018-03-26

★★★★★

This was lots of fun. The story is told in a four-star way, but it has so fucking many great concepts: Having a fuckton of software for your brain, and the implications of loyalty software, of cours. But mostly the idea that humans are uniq

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Distress

by Greg Egan · published 1995 · read 2018-07-20

★★★★☆

Distress is another really enjoyable book by Greg Egan, part of his very loosely connected Subjective Cosmology trilogy. It's less "weird" than the other two parts, and might make a better starting point for interested readers. We acc

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Permutation City

by Greg Egan · published 1994 · read 2018-04-24

★★★★☆

3.5 stars, weird one. Greg continues to play with the rules of perception and what perceiving a thing implies, only this time we go on a trippy trip to parallel universe central, launching of parallel universes as we go, dropping through th

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Axiomatic

by Greg Egan · published 1990 · read 2017-03-10

★★★★☆

Hard to rate collections of stories. There was really cool stuff in there, and I like how he works off similar themes (such as the jewel) repeatedly, but some stories felt too close thematically or in the way they were structured. Really

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Diaspora

by Greg Egan · published 1997 · read 2018-08-25

★★☆☆☆

While I liked Greg Egan's other novels, Diaspora didn't grip me at all and was very hard to get through. The fact that it revolves around an advanced species that can change itself to any degree it wants to made it hard to feel sypath

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Reasons To Be Cheerful

by Greg Egan · published 1999 · read 2022-12-30

★★☆☆☆

Creepy af story (constant happiness, constant depression, self-directed brain rewiring, etc), as always when Gregan starts thinking about brains. Available online, and I liked reading it in the end. Distinctly early 2000s though, and not ju