Instantiation

paperback, 436 pages

Published Jan. 22, 2020 by Greg Egan.

ISBN:
978-1-922240-33-0
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“Instantiation” is a collection of eleven science fiction stories by Hugo Award winning author Greg Egan.

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A collection of fascinating Hard SF stories by Australian writer Greg Egan

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A collection of Greg Egan's recent stories, this collection shows the strength and breath of the author's imagination in stories that span from personal crisis, financial and biological, to ones that envelop the whole world and involve characters that think about and solve complex problems. “The Slipway” stands out as a story that involves scientists solving an astronomical problem, yet remains personal by showing that scientists are human and argue about but finally agree on the solution to a Hard SF problem.

  • “The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine”: in a future when people are being replaced by machines at their jobs, one man loses his job and struggles to find work and support his family. But unusual events, like a parent who apparently makes a living secretly writing monthly porn novels or a relative who believes the machines are out to get him, start to make him wonder what …