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Russell Letson, writing in the Locus Magazine, claims that the short stories "Bit Players", "3-adica", and "Instantiation" all "outline the technical-legal problems of AI personhood as artificial personalities try to escape the virtual-reality game worlds that they have been programmed into."
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Karen Burnham, writing in the New York Review of Science Fiction, concludes after a discussion of the short stories "Axiomatic", "Mister Volition" and "Singleton", that "not everyone is as sanguine about the continuity of consciousness when making the transition to substances other than our organic brains nor so worried about the moral implications of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum ...
Sam Tomaino, writing for SFRevu, thinks that the short story „gets a little technical but [has] an interesting idea“. [10] [11]Mike Bickerdike, writing for Tangent Online, states that "Didicosm" is "somewhat unusual as an SF short story, because while it is technically a story, it is more a speculation on whether Hantzsche–Wendt manifolds apply in cosmological topology."
Karen Burnham, writing in the New York Review of Science Fiction, considers the short story to be an "instant classic". [4] In Greg Egan (Masters of Science Fiction), Burnham calls it "one of his most important stories" and that it "is critically concerned with identity and how it may be maintained (or not) when transforming into an immortal, digital consciousness."
Greg Johnson, writing on the SF Site, states that the collection "represent Egan both at his best, and his most accessible" and that he "finds a way to balance the complexity of his ideas with enough story and character for the reader to care about them as stories and not just speculative essays on the latest in cosmology, physics or artificial intelligence research."
"The Moral Virologist" is a science fiction short story by Greg Egan. [1] It was first published in September 1990 in Pulphouse Magazine, and subsequently republished in 1991's The Best of Pulphouse, in the Summer 1993 issue of Eidolon magazine, and in Egan's 1995 collection Axiomatic. [2]
Greg Jackson is an American writer. He is best known for his award-winning book of short stories Prodigals (2016). His debut novel The Dimensions of a Cave is due out in 2023. In 2017, Jackson was named one of the Best Young American Novelists by Granta magazine.