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Crystal Nights and Other Stories
| Author: | Greg Egan |
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Subterranean Press, 2009 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
The nine stories in Greg Egan's new collection range from parables of contemporary human conflict and ambition to far-future tales of our immortal descendants.
In "Lost Continent", a time traveler seeking refuge from a war-torn land faces hostility and bureaucratic incompetence. "Crystal Nights" portrays a driven man s moral compromises as he chases an elusive technological breakthrough, while in "Steve Fever" the technology itself falls victim to its own hype.
"TAP" brings us a new kind of poetry, where a word is more powerful than a thousand images. "Singleton" shows us a new kind of child, born of human DNA modeled in a quantum computer who, in "Oracle", journeys to a parallel world to repay a debt to an intellectual ancestor.
"Induction" chronicles the methods and motives behind humanity s first steps to the stars. "Border Guards" reflects on the painful history of a tranquil utopia. And in the final story, "Hot Rock", two immortal citizens of the galaxy-spanning Amalgam find that an obscure, sunless world conceals mind-spinning technological marvels, bitter factional struggles, and a many-layered secret history.
Greg Egan is the author of seven novels and over fifty short stories. He is a winner of the Hugo Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - essay
- Lost Continent - (2008) - novelette
- Crystal Nights - (2008) - novelette
- Steve Fever - (2007) - shortstory
- TAP - (1995) - novelette
- Induction - (2007) - shortstory
- Singleton - (2002) - novella
- Oracle - (2000) - novella
- Border Guards - (1999) - novelette
- Hot Rock - (2009) - novella
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