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Severance seems heavily influenced by the works of Greg Egan, a sci-fi author famous for his writings about technology and consciousness. I assume this is the o
by rogerclark 4y ago
Severance seems heavily influenced by the works of Greg Egan, a sci-fi author famous for his writings about technology and consciousness. I assume this is the origin of the name "Eagan" used frequently in the show.
- sooheon 4y agoGood catch. The best parts of many sci-fi shows are lifted directly from Egan, Black mirror's "cookie" concept (copying a consciousness) and Egan's "jewel", for example.
- posnet 4y agoI always feel that so many of the 'digital humans' narratives sci-fi are just approximations of the depth of world achieved in permutation city or diaspora.
- drifkin 4y agoI love both the show & Egan's writing, but Egan's stuff feels a lot more optimistic to me. I do like the theory that things are not quite what they seem in Severance and there might be a Ndoli Jewel-type device involved.
- throwaway290 4y agoI read Egan but to me Severance is pure PKD, from general dystopian feel to Paycheck plot engine similarity in particular.