Description
Immortality can be yours . . . at a price
Permutation city is the tale of a man with a vision - how to create immortality - and how that vision becomes grows beyond his control. Encompassing the lives and struggles of an artificial life junkie desperate to save her dying mother, a billionaire banker scarred by a terrible crime, the lovers for whom, in their timeless virtual world, love is not enough - and much more - Permutation city is filled with the sense of wonder and dread.
Can what makes you human be distilled into data? And what happens if you can't afford to pay?
Readers are having their minds blown by PERMUTATION CITY:
"Egan tells the story masterfully. I can only marvel at how he finds his inspiration for a high-tech tale in an ancient wisdom like Kabbalah, and then proceeds to out-Kabbalah even the Kabbalists with his creativity" - Goodreads reviewer,
"Egan questions what it really means to be human in a way that it's quite unsurpassed in my mind" - Goodreads reviewer,
"THIS is why I read SF. THIS is the sense of wonder I'm looking for in a SF story. Forget everything you read about virtual reality, artificial life & consciousness - nothing compares to the concepts and the worldbuilding in this book. This is ultimate postcyberpunk ever" - Goodreads reviewer,
"I can say without qualification that Greg Egan is the greatest science fiction author I've ever read" - Goodreads reviewer,
* Will appeal to anyone interested in the electronic frontier - readers of Guardian's weekly Online tabloid, the observer's Science/Cyberspace section and there are 200,000 subscribers to computer bulletin board internet in the UK alone. * The finest such author since William Gibson - hailed as one of the genre's great ideas men by the Times. * Excellent reviews. ' Succeeds wonderfully in expanding the mind...rewards the reader with ever expanding vistas of wonder... The universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan NEW SCIENTIST
About the Author
Greg Egan (1961-) Greg Egan lives in Perth, Western Australia. He is a mathematician and has produced record-breaking research on supermutations. He has won the John W. Campbell award for Best Novel for Permutation City, and Oceanic was awarded a Hugo, a Locus and an Asimov's Readers' award. His work has also won the Japanese Seiun Award for best translated fiction seven times.
Awards
Winner of John W Campbell Award 1995 (UK). Short-listed for British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel 1995 (UK) and Philip K. Dick Award 1996 (UK).
Book Information
ISBN 9780575082076
Author Greg Egan
Format Paperback
Page Count 384
Imprint Gollancz
Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Weight(grams) 307g
Dimensions(mm) 201mm * 168mm * 26mm
Details
Subtitle: |
The incredible, mind-bending look at cyberspace, afterlife and immortality from one of the greats of science fiction |
Imprint: |
Gollancz |
