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“Scale” by Greg Egan
- jdkee 4y agoHighly recommend the short story, ”Wang’s Carpets” by Egan titled in honor of mathematician Hao Wang. See http://akkartik.name/post/wangs-carpets http://akkartik.name/post/wangs-carpets
- spindle 4y agoStrongly agree, and (as I'm sure you know) that story is an excerpt from Egan's wonderful novel "Diaspora".
- layer8 4y agoI highly recommend Greg Egan’s short story anthology Axiomatic.
- memalign 4y ago“Learning to Be Me” has really stuck with me.
- Jack000 4y agoThanks for the reminder. Greg Egan is one of the few SF authors where I don’t feel like I’m reading a “tech themed” fantasy story where the sci-fi elements may as well be magic.
- mitchmindtree 4y agoGreg Egan's Permutation City is an all-time favourite. The combination of simulation, cellular automata, garden of eden states and Dust Theory blew my mind as an adult in the same way that the Matrix did when I was a kid. Very keen to check out this new work!
- defrost 4y agoIs it too soon for another round of Pictures of Greg Egan [1]? Is Greg even male or an individual? Hats off to a fellow sandgroper. [1] https://www.gregegan.net/images/GregEgan.htm https://www.gregegan.net/images/GregEgan.htm
- josephcsible 4y agoI like Greg Egan's formula for stories of coming up with a "small" change to fundamental physics, and then follow all of the consequences to their logical conclusions to build the world. It's <https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Mohs/OneBigLie https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Mohs/OneBigLie> to a T. And I really like the "Science" pages on his website that explain these worlds, which a bunch of his books have, including this one (where there are 8 long-lived generations of leptons), Orthogonal (where the time dimension is spacelike), and Dichronauts (where one of the space dimensions is timelike).