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Anyone who would be on this site is the kind of person who should do themselves a favor and read his short story collection Axiomatic. His other collections are
by Acumen321 3y ago
Anyone who would be on this site is the kind of person who should do themselves a favor and read his short story collection Axiomatic. His other collections are excellent as well, I have read them all. For novels, Diaspora is my favorite so far, but I am still working through them.
- komon 3y agoI enjoyed Schild's Ladder and Permutation City immensely
- loudmax 3y agoI strongly second the recommendation for Diaspora. The story begins about 1000 years in the future, with characters that are trans-human, or post-human. Starting from that baseline of normalcy, then it gets weird. But it's not weird for the sake of weirdness. The story is grounded in logic and built around rational exploration of deeply philosophical ideas. The book can be challenging at times, but only because the concepts it explores are so deep. The writing, IMHO, is very lucid. Egan wants to bring you into these ideas, not drive you away through inscrutable prose.