Agreed. It's a must-read for anyone interested in a thrilling story mixing ethics of simulated realities, uploading of consciousness, self-modification and fini

Agreed. It's a must-read for anyone interested in a thrilling story mixing ethics of simulated realities, uploading of consciousness, self-modification and finite automata. Simulated beings are a repeated topic in Egan's stories. Some of them are freely available online, for instance https://www.gregegan.net/PLANCK/Complete/Planck.html https://www.gregegan.net/PLANCK/Complete/Planck.html (where simulated beings create clones of themselves which are to fall into a black hole, hoping to gain insights on fundamental physics) and https://www.gregegan.net/INCANDESCENCE/00/Crocodile.html https://www.gregegan.net/INCANDESCENCE/00/Crocodile.html (where a couple, after having lived for more than ten thousand years, decides to embark on a final adventure, leaving all loved ones behind because of differences in time perception).