Diaspora - Softcover

Egan, Greg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061057983 ISBN 13: 9780061057984

Publisher: Eos, 1999

Synopsis

In a new world of digital beings, an Orphan is born, and humans have chosen to be forever digitized, have selected renewable robotic bodies, or remain flesh on Earth, until a devastating event occurs, causing the Orphan go to Earth to protect the Fleshers from beings that can reshape subatomic particles and transcend time. Reissue.

About this title

Review:

In the 30th century, few humans remain on Earth. Most have downloaded themselves into robot bodies or solar-system-spanning virtual realities, escaping death--or so they believe, until the collision of nearby neutron stars threatens life in every form.

Diaspora, written by Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Greg Egan, transcends millennia and universes in the tradition of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus, Camille Flammarion's Omega, and Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men. Diaspora is packed with mind-bending ideas extrapolated from cutting-edge cosmology, physics, and consciousness theory to create an astonishing hard-SF novel inhabited by very strange yet always believable characters. Diaspora is why people read SF. --Cynthia Ward

About the Author:

Greg Egan is Australian by birth and lives there today. In addition to being a Science Fiction author he is a computer programmer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Eos
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0061057983
• ISBN 13: 9780061057984
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 416