A stunning collection of ground-breaking sf stories from a master of the genre

Roi and Zak live inside the Splinter, a world of rock that swims in a sea of light they call the Incandescence. The Splinter is orbiting a black hole, which is about to capture a neighbouring star and wreak havoc. As danger grows, Roi, Zak and a band of recruits struggle to understand their world and take control of their fate.

What happens when your digital self overpowers your physical self?

A life in Permutation City is unlike any life to which you're accustomed. You have Eternal Life, the power to live forever. Immortality is a real thing, just not the thing you'd expect.

Life is just electronic code. You have been digitized, scanned, and downloaded into a virtual reality program. A Copy of a Copy. For Paul Durham, he keeps making Copies of himself, but the issue is that his Copies keep changing their minds and shutting themselves down.

You also have Maria Deluca, who is nothing but an...

"Wonderful, mind-expanding stuff, and well written too."
--The Guardian

Axiomatic is a wonderful collection of eighteen short stories by Hugo Award-winning author Greg Egan. The stories in this collection have appeared in such science fiction magazines as Interzone and Asimov's between 1989 and 1992.

From junkies who drink at the time-stream to love affairs in time-reversed galaxies; from gene-altered dolphins that converse only in limericks to the program that allows you to design your own child; from the brain implants called axiomatics to the...

A quantum Brave New World from the boldest and most wildly speculative writer of his generation.

Since the Introdus in the twenty-first century, humanity has reconfigured itself drastically. Most chose immortality, joining the polises to become conscious software. Others opted for gleisners: disposable, renewable robotic bodies that remain in contact with the physical world of force and friction. Many of these have left the solar system forever in fusion-drive starships.

And there are the holdouts: the fleshers left behind in the muck and jungle of Earth--some devolved...

Greg Egan nos brinda la que es, probablemente, la mejor antologia de relatos de ciencia ficcion publicada en los ultimos 20 anos. En este espectacular libro tenemos dieciocho relatos en los que el australiano explora con destreza y habilidad, temas como identidad personal, destino, manipulacion genetica, conspiraciones glob ales, o culpabilidad en una antologia de referencia en la moderna ciencia ficcion. Si alguien cree que la ciencia ficcion esta muerta es que no ha leido a Greg Egan, y, en particular, no ha leido esta antologia. Las ideas son el motivo central de todos estos relatos. Donde...