Permutation City is my favorite from Greg Egan. Worm gives off the sort of interesting-resourceful vibe mostly for the first half, until the large time skip, a

Permutation City is my favorite from Greg Egan. Worm gives off the sort of interesting-resourceful vibe mostly for the first half, until the large time skip, at which point it stops being street-level and starts getting very comic book grandiose-silly.