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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Short story collections by Greg Egan" ... out of 8 total.
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."
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 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Short stories by Greg Egan" ... out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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."
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 ...
[4] [5] [6] It also won two foreign short story awards: the 2000 Hayakawa's SF Magazine Reader's Award and the 2001 Seiun Award. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] "Oceanic" was also a finalist in the 1998 Aurealis Award for best science fiction short story , a long list nominee for the 1999 James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award , and a short-list nominee for the 1999 ...