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His Permutation City is also good.
by mansr 9y ago
His Permutation City is also good.
- Udik 9y agoPermutation City is probably the best hard sci-fi novel I've ever read.
- Aron 9y agoThere was some page towards the end I remember being hopelessly lost and never recovered.
- Udik 9y agoYou mean yourself or the plot? I think that in the third act Egan added some weaker elements both as a corollary of the idea being explored and as a way of introducing some traditional action, in a novel that is otherwise mostly the setup of an elaborate thought experiment. Nonetheless, I think the result is extraordinary, because the problems posed, the paradoxes highlighted, and some brilliant insights, are new and valid outside the fictional world created in the novel.