![]() ![]() “Bit Players”-the opening movement in a trio of tales that continues with “3-adica” and “Instantiation”-posits a world in which cheaply generated software beings are exploited for the basest commercial purposes. ![]() The book opens with “Learning to be Me,” about a society in which the organic human brain can be replaced by a miraculous piece of technology called “the jewel,” a “mock brain” that confers, among other things, a kind of immortality on its recipients. ![]() The Best of Greg Egan contains twenty stories and novellas arranged in chronological order, and each of them is a brilliantly conceived, painstakingly developed gem. ![]() All these ideas and more find their way into this generous and illuminating collection, the clear product of a man who is both a master storyteller and a rigorous, exploratory thinker. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he has produced a steady stream of novels and stories that address a wide range of scientific and philosophical concerns: artificial intelligence, higher mathematics, science vs religion, the nature of consciousness, and the impact of technology on the human personality. Greg Egan is arguably Australia’s greatest living science fiction writer. ![]()
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