www.theendoftheuniverse.ca — There's an interesting essay on the Tor blog by a Toronto writer that ponders why Austrailan science fiction writer Greg Egan is not a superstar. His writing and ideas are brilliant and those who faithfully follow his work love his books yet fandom at large doesn't seem to buy ...
REVIEW: Incandescence by Greg Egan
www.sfsignal.com 10/24/2008 —
REVIEW SUMMARY : A book for people who are really, really into science.
MY RATING :
BRIEF SYNOPSIS : A pair of post-humans searches for clues to the origin of DNA based life; a society dwelling inside an asteroid must discover the laws of ...
REVIEW SUMMARY : A book for people who are really, really into science.
MY RATING :
BRIEF SYNOPSIS : A pair of post-humans searches for clues to the origin of DNA based life; a society dwelling inside an asteroid must discover the laws of ...
Why Isn't Greg Egan A Superstar?
www.tor.com 12/19/2008 — I have a confession to make. About ten years ago, I pretty much gave up on reading science fiction. It wasn’t that I didn’t like it anymore; it was that I increasingly felt like I had already read all the good stuff, so I decided to take a few ...
I have a confession to make. About ten years ago, I pretty much gave up on reading science fiction. It wasn’t that I didn’t like it anymore; it was that I increasingly felt like I had already read all the good stuff, so I decided to take a few ...
Incandescence by Greg Egan
www.sfsite.com 9/1/2008 — If the world of SF were a stock market then Greg Egan would be a blue chip company. Hugely respected and a doyen of the Hard SF scene, he is not what you would call unpredictable. This, his first novel in six years, is as blue chip as ever in that not ...
If the world of SF were a stock market then Greg Egan would be a blue chip company. Hugely respected and a doyen of the Hard SF scene, he is not what you would call unpredictable. This, his first novel in six years, is as blue chip as ever in that not ...
Incandescence by Greg Egan
www.sfsite.com 3/9/2009 — Why do we read hard science fiction? It could be that in a hard SF story the characters are bound by the laws of the universe, the threat they face is shaped by the immutable rule of nature. In other words, science is king, physics or chemistry or, ...
Why do we read hard science fiction? It could be that in a hard SF story the characters are bound by the laws of the universe, the threat they face is shaped by the immutable rule of nature. In other words, science is king, physics or chemistry or, ...
Transmission 7: Crystal Nights by Greg Egan
transmissionsfrombeyond.com 10/2/2008 —
Crystal Nights by Greg Egan
Read by Dave Jones
From Interzone 215, April 2008
Podcast Length: 67 minutes • Transmission Length: 61 minutes
Crystal Nights contains very brief strong language
All rights are reserved. Please refer to our ...
Crystal Nights by Greg Egan
Read by Dave Jones
From Interzone 215, April 2008
Podcast Length: 67 minutes • Transmission Length: 61 minutes
Crystal Nights contains very brief strong language
All rights are reserved. Please refer to our ...
"It's About the Characters, Stupid!"
jetgirl78.livejournal.com 3/25/2009 — Days later, I am still thinking about the finale. Honestly, I don't quite know what to make of my feelings other than it is just this weird mixture of disappointed satisfaction. I loved it and loathe it at once, but I don't know how else the epic ...
Days later, I am still thinking about the finale. Honestly, I don't quite know what to make of my feelings other than it is just this weird mixture of disappointed satisfaction. I loved it and loathe it at once, but I don't know how else the epic ...
To trace impunity: Greg Egan’s Permutation City
www.tor.com 9/17/2008 — There are readings of a book you can’t have on first reading. One of them is the reading in the light of later work. Another is being impressed how much it hasn’t dated.
I loved Permutation City when I first read it in 1994. It blew me away. ...
There are readings of a book you can’t have on first reading. One of them is the reading in the light of later work. Another is being impressed how much it hasn’t dated.
I loved Permutation City when I first read it in 1994. It blew me away. ...
Neal Stephenson, spaceman Tom Shippey TLS
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk 11/10/2008 — s new novel is a great thick brick of a book, weighing one-and-a-half kilos, its 937 pages ending with three appendices, or Calcas , which are in effect geometric puzzles-cum-explanations. Phrases like six-dimensional space are common enough in ...
s new novel is a great thick brick of a book, weighing one-and-a-half kilos, its 937 pages ending with three appendices, or Calcas , which are in effect geometric puzzles-cum-explanations. Phrases like six-dimensional space are common enough in ...
Top Five Books of 2008
vectoreditors.wordpress.com 12/30/2008 — There’s still a few books I hope to get through before award nomination time (notably The Quiet War and Half a Crown ), but this is my list of the top five of books I read in 2008 which were actually published in 2008.
1. The Gone-Away World ...
There’s still a few books I hope to get through before award nomination time (notably The Quiet War and Half a Crown ), but this is my list of the top five of books I read in 2008 which were actually published in 2008.
1. The Gone-Away World ...
Review of Anathem by Neal Stephenson
www.sffaudio.com 4/10/2009 —
Anathem
By Neal Stephenson; Read by Oliver Wyman, Tavia Gilbert, William Dufris, and Neal Stephenson
Audible Download - 32 hours 30 minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Published: 2008
Themes: / alien invasion / philosophy / religion / alternate universe
After nearly ...
Anathem
By Neal Stephenson; Read by Oliver Wyman, Tavia Gilbert, William Dufris, and Neal Stephenson
Audible Download - 32 hours 30 minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Published: 2008
Themes: / alien invasion / philosophy / religion / alternate universe
After nearly ...
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