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Summary: Real "Hard" Science Fiction
Review: This conclusion to the cycle of Permutation City and Quarantine is as good as the first to. The satisfaction of reading one of Egan's books is incredible and this story is recomended to anyone who wants to strech their mind.
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Summary: The kind of science fiction I'm tired of.
Review: This is one of those books that tells me how stupid & delusional I am & I'm sick of it. I've liked some of egan's stories in Asimov's, Axiomatic, & elsewhere, but I'll never buy another of his books again. I've liked atheist authors ,Asimov's my favorite author, but some are aware of a little thing called tact. I didn't give it a lower rating because the snide atheist school of sci-fi is quite popular.
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Summary: Read the Originals !
Review: Very strong start in a familiar city of tomorrow changed by broadband communications and biotech. Interesting character development. Then it goes to a floating island and much time is spent describing its infrastructure and politics. Pretty convential techy sci-fi, minus much action. Many characters, characters lecture each other and posture. As far as Egan the "idea man," well.....
The scenario of the butchered man revived for questioning is Alfreds Bester's The Stars My Destination. The mob of New Agers besieging the cosmologists is Isaac Asimov's Nightfall.
And the computer that triggers the end of the universe by calculating ultimate truth is Ray Bradberry's The Nine Million Name of God. .... All of which were better than Distress
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