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 Podcast Use page for further details
Comments
Blog Reactions
SF Tidbits for 10/2/08
SF Signal —
... Thane Thompson, Mercedes M. Yardley, Sheila Crosby, and Brooke Bolander. Farrago's Wainscot has its 8th issue out with fiction by Paul Abbamondi, Daniel Braum, Becca De La Rosa, Rob Hunter, Marc Lowe, Cat Rambo, and Mark Teppo. Issue #25 of Clarkesworld Magazine features fiction by Jim C. Hines (whose story is also provided via podcast) and John A. McDermott; Non-fiction by Gord Sellar and Jeff VanderMeer; Audio Fiction: @Transmissions From Beyond: "Crystal Nights" by Greg Egan, read by Dave Jones. @Fantasy ...
Gardner Dozois (Ed)'s "The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection" (2009, anthology): Annotated table of contents & review
Variety SF —
... 's "Crystal Nights"; podcast at Transmission from Beyond (includes downloabable MP3 audio); Interzone, #215 (April 2008): Not read. ...
Greg Egan - "Crystal Nights" (novelette, AI, free): A retelling of Theodore Sturgeon's "Microcosmic God"
Variety SF —
... in. Gardner Dozois (Ed)'s "The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection" (2009). Jonathan Strahan (Ed)'s "Best SF and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 3" (2009). Fact sheet. First published: Interzone, #215 (April 2008). Rating: A. Download full text from publisher's site; or podcast at Transmission from Beyond (includes downloabable MP3 audio). Among the ...
BSFA nominee: “Crystal Nights”
Torque Control —
... Today’s story: “Crystal Nights” by Greg Egan. read here, or listen here. Today’s opinion roundup starts with Karen Burnham:
“Crystal Nights” covers enough ground for any ten short stories. Actions have consequences here too, but messing with the nature of the universe is more than simply metaphorical. A rich dot-com-style billionaire sinks a considerable portion of his fortune into developing the fastest computer ever. And he keeps the technology all to himself. (Egan may not be familiar with how ...
Related Content
BSFA nominee: “Crystal Nights”
vectoreditors.wordpress.com 4/4/2009 — Today’s story: “Crystal Nights” by Greg Egan. read here , or listen here . Today’s opinion roundup starts with Karen Burnham :
“Crystal Nights” covers enough ground for any ten short stories. Actions have ...
Incandescence by Greg Egan
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 ...
Incandescence by Greg Egan
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, ...
REVIEW: Incandescence by Greg Egan
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 ...
Greg Egan: The big interview
keepingthedoor.com 5 days ago — Australian sci-fi author on his next novel Zendegi.
Related posts: Master of Light and Shadow: Janny Wurts interview
Why Isn't Greg Egan A Superstar?
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 years ...
Greg Egan will make you feel stupid
theendoftheuniverse.ca 12/30/2008 — 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 ...
To trace impunity: Greg Egan’s Permutation City
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. It ...
My Favorite Science Fiction Story: Greg Wickenhofer
bestsciencefictionstories.com 8/17/2008 — Today’s post is a guest review by Greg Wickenhofer. Greg is the author of “Orbiter’s Reward” - one of the flash fiction stories I reviewed several months ago. After my post about his story he was kind enough to contact me and ...
Follow 42Blips on Twitter
