{"title":"Books by Greg Egan","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780575082076","title":"Permutation City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eImmortality can be yours . . . at a price\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePermutation city is the tale of a man with a vision - how to create immortality - and how that vision becomes grows beyond his control. Encompassing the lives and struggles of an artificial life junkie desperate to save her dying mother, a billionaire banker scarred by a terrible crime, the lovers for whom, in their timeless virtual world, love is not enough - and much more - Permutation city is filled with the sense of wonder and dread. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan what makes you human be distilled into data? And what happens if you can't afford to pay?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReaders are having their minds blown by PERMUTATION CITY:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eEgan tells the story masterfully\u003c\/b\u003e. I can only marvel at how he finds his inspiration for a high-tech tale in an ancient wisdom like Kabbalah, and then proceeds to out-Kabbalah even the Kabbalists with his creativity\" - Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Egan questions what it really means to be human in \u003cb\u003ea way that it's quite unsurpassed in my mind\u003c\/b\u003e\" - Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"THIS is why I read SF. THIS is the sense of wonder I'm looking for in a SF story. Forget everything you read about virtual reality, artificial life \u0026amp; consciousness - \u003cb\u003enothing compares to the concepts and the worldbuilding in this book\u003c\/b\u003e. This is ultimate postcyberpunk ever\" - Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I can say without qualification that \u003cb\u003eGreg Egan is the greatest science fiction author I've ever read\u003c\/b\u003e\" - Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204023746738,"sku":"9780575082076","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780575082076.jpg?v=1786015317"},{"product_id":"9780575082069","title":"Schild's Ladder","description":"\u003cp\u003eCass has stumbled on something that might be an entirely different type of physics, and she's travelled three hundred and fifty light-years to Mimosa Station, a remote experimental facility, to test her theory. The novo-vacuum she creates is predicted to begin decaying the instant it's created, but even so short-lived a microscopic speck could shed new light on the origins of the universe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut instead of decaying, Cass's novo-vacuum is wildly successful and begins expanding, slowly but inexorably taking over the universe ...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSCHILD'S LADDER: a wild ride through the far future by one of the world's most respected and acclaimed writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56292802068853,"sku":"9780575082069","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780575082069_d60a40d1-6901-4daf-8c06-e1bae16554b7.jpg?v=1786015316"},{"product_id":"9780575086548","title":"Oceanic","description":"\u003cp\u003eCollected together here for the first time are twelve stories by the incomparable Greg Egan, one of the most exciting writers of science fiction working today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these dozen glimpses into the future Egan continues to explore the essence of what it is to be human, and the nature of what - and who - we are, in stories that range from parables of contemporary human conflict and ambition to far-future tales of our immortal descendants.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReturn to the universe of the meta-civilisation known as the Amalgam, which Egan explored in his critically acclaimed novel Incandescence: 'Riding the Crocodile', which recounts an epic endeavour a million years from now to bridge the divide between the Amalgam and the reclusive Aloof; 'Glory', set in the same future, in which two archaeologists strive to decipher the artefacts of an ancient civilisation, and 'Hot Rock', where an obscure, sunless world conceals mind-spinning technological marvels, bitter factional struggles, and a many-layered secret history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis superb collection also includes the title story, the Hugo Award-winning 'Oceanic': a boy is inducted into a religion that becomes the centre of his life, but as an adult he must face evidence that casts a new light on his faith.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56292837130613,"sku":"9780575086548","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780575086548.jpg?v=1786014537"},{"product_id":"9780575081727","title":"Quarantine","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's late in the 21st century and bioengineering is now so common that people are able to modify their minds in any way they wish. It is an era which has been shaped by information systems so vast that security, in any form, is easily breached. Now you can be whatever you want to be, and do whatever you want to do. On Earth anyway. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne night, thirty three years ago, the stars went out. 'The Bubble' - a perfect sphere centred on the sun - appeared in the sky, isolating the solar system from the rest of the universe. For thirty-three years, humanity has lived with the religious cults and terrorism which spawned in the wake of the darkness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe are now alone. Humanity has been cut off. 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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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And there are the holdouts: the fleshers left behind in the muck and jungle of Earth-some devolved into dream apes, others cavorting in the seas or the air-while the statics and bridgers try to shape out a roughly human destiny.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But the complacency of the citizens is shattered when an unforeseen disaster ravages the fleshers and reveals the possibility that the polises themselves might be at risk from bizarre astrophysical processes that seem to violate fundamental laws of nature. The orphan Yatima, a digital being grown from a mind seed, joins a group of citizens and flesher refugees in a search for the knowledge that will guarantee their safety-a search that puts them on the trail of the ancient and elusive Transmuters, who have the power to reshape subatomic particles, and to cross into the macrocosmos, where the universe we know is nothing but a speck in the higher-dimensional vacuum.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReaders are having their minds blown by DIASPORA:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eDiaspora\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ea work of staggering imagination\u003c\/b\u003e' - Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Diaspora is \u003cb\u003eone of the greatest science fiction books I have ever read.\u003c\/b\u003e Reading it brought into my mind a sense of wonder and of sheer visceral infinity that I hadn't felt for years' - Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Absolutely stunning concepts are fired at you every couple of pages . . . \u003cb\u003eSpectacular\u003c\/b\u003e' - Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Egan takes us into areas of multi-dimensional maths and wormhole physics that stretch the readers' minds . . . all told with a clarity and skill that makes Egan \u003cb\u003eone of the finest and most important writers working in SF today\u003c\/b\u003e' - Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eTotally mind-blowing sci-fi. \u003c\/b\u003eIt manages to be plausible but audaciously imaginative' - Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56293057134965,"sku":"9780575082090","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780575082090_90d47d48-ebdc-406a-b728-4174ee707796.jpg?v=1786015318"},{"product_id":"best-of-greg-egan","title":"The Best of Greg Egan","description":"\u003cp\u003eGreg Egan is arguably Australia's greatest living science fiction writer. 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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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Best of Greg Egan \u003c\/i\u003econtains twenty stories and novellas arranged in chronological order, and each of them is a brilliantly conceived, painstakingly developed gem, including the Hugo Award-winning novella \"Oceanic\", a powerful account of a boy whose deeply held religious beliefs are undermined by what he comes to learn about the laws of the physical world.\u003cbr\u003eThis book really does represent the best of Greg Egan, and it therefore takes its place among the best of contemporary SF. Startling, intelligent and always hugely entertaining, it provides an ideal introduction to one of the most accomplished and original writers working today. 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