Greg Egan Quarantine, First Edition (4 results)

Greg Egan (illustrator). New York: Night Shade Books:, 2014. First printing, Trade paperback, Fine, 221 pp. Cover artwork by: Greg Egan An as new copy. In 2067, PI Nick Stavrianos is hired to investigate the disappearance of Laura, a mentally disabled woman. The trail leads him to the Republic of New Hong Kong, where an organization known as the Ensemble has uncovered Laura's secret and the only possible way she could have escaped from the institution: her ability to walk through walls. It's up to Nick not only to find out what the Ensemble plans to do with Laura, but also - if he can - to get her before her powers transform the world. Will it be for good or bad? That's the question Nick has to answer. From the mind of Hugo Award-winning author Greg Egan, Quarantine is a tour de force of hard science fiction that will grip you from the first page and not let go. Originally published more than twenty years ago, Quarantine is now back in print and available to readers again." First printing, Trade paperback, Fine,

Softback. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No dustjacket. First (Thus). A first printing of this edition with a full 1 to 10 number sequence. In VERY FINE and UNREAD condition. IN STOCK NOW READY FOR IMMEDIATE DISPATCH.

1st edition. HC in dust jacket. 1st Printing. Pages toning slightly. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Octavo, boards. First edition. "Pursuing his ongoing fascination with different forms of life, Egan explores the ramifications of scanning and downloading the human mind into virtual environments. But while PERMUTATION CITY is partially concerned with the vulnerability of such 'Copies,' dependent on the stability of the computer systems they inhabit, Egan is also preoccupied with the nature and fluidity of identity. Which is more real, the scan or the person, and can the two co-exist? And having been scanned and then reloaded into a body, is the Copy different from the original? Egan uses a complex, multi-viewpoint narrative to reflect the shifting natures of reality and experience in a world that may be a computer construction or the real thing. In the end, only uncertainty remains, in what is one of Egan's best novels, with tightly structured plotting and coherent storytelling." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-367. Winner of the 1995 John W Campbell Memorial Award. Egan's second SF novel, preceded by QUARANTINE (1992). Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #38. A fine copy in fine dust jacket priced £14.99 on the front flap. (#156994).