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The Best of Greg Egan by Greg Egan, David Ho is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Best of Greg Egan about?
Greg Egan is arguably Australias greatest living science fiction writer. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he has produced a steady stream of novels and stories that address a wide range of scientific and philosophical concerns: artificial intelligence, higher mathematics, science vs religion, the nature of consciousness, and the impact of technology on the human personality. All these ideas and more find their way into this generous and illuminating collection, the clear product of a man who is both a master storyteller and a rigorous, exploratory thinker. The Best of Greg Egan contains twenty stories and novellas arranged in chronological order, and each of them is a brilliantly conceived, painstakingly developed gem. The book opens with Learning to be Me, about a society in which the organic human brain can be replaced by a miraculous piece of technology called the jewel, a mock brain that confers, among other things, a kind of immortality on its recipients. Bit Playersthe opening movement in a trio of tales that continues with 3-adica and Instantiationposits a world in which cheaply generated software beings are exploited for the basest commercial purposes. (Other se
Who reads The Best of Greg Egan?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Greg Egan, David Ho
- Publisher
- ePubLibre
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781596069428
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Science Fiction, High Tech & Hard Sci Fi, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (98 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
