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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 ...
"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]
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Axiomatic (ISBN 0-7528-1650-0) is a 1995 collection of short science fiction stories by Greg Egan. [1] The stories all delve into different aspects of self and identity. The Guardian described it as "Wonderful mind-expanding stuff, and well-written too."
The Best of Greg Egan is a collection of science fiction stories by Australian writer Greg Egan, published by Subterranean Press in 2019. [1] The collection contains 20 stories which were published in a variety of original publications. It is also accompanied by an Afterword from the author. [1]
Writing in Vector Brian Stableford noted: "Egan's second story-collection, Luminous, is markedly better than his first.Axiomatic, and warrants comparison with such classic collections of Contes philosophiques as Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths and Primo Levi's The Sixth Day...This is the science fiction book of the year, and it should be on every sf lover's shelf...For good or ill, this is the ...
The Best American Short Stories 2023 is a volume in the annual Best American Short Stories anthology. It was edited by the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, and guest editor and National Book Award finalist, Min Jin Lee. [1] [2] [3]
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."