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DISTRESS.
[New York]: HarperPrism, [1997]. Octavo, boards. First U. S. edition.
DISTRESS.
[New York]: HarperPrism, [1997]. Octavo, boards. First U. S. edition. "About 60 years from now, SeeNet journalist and narrator Andrew Worth (he has a camera and computer software hardwired into his body) muscles in on a colleague's assignment to cover a physics convention on the artificial coral island, Stateless, at which Nobel laureate Violet Mosala is expected to announce a watertight Theory of Everything (TOE). The event, however, is complicated by the presence of several noisy anti-science cult groups--among them the mysterious and secretive Anthrocosmologists who believe that whoever first formulates the TOE will become the Keystone in which the completed TOE, mingling information theory with particle physics, will actually change the structure of the universe. Andrew's Anthrocosmology contact, Akili Kuwale, a ``gender migrant'' (s/he has no breasts or sexual organs), warns that a particularly violent, extreme faction intends to assassinate Violet to prevent the Aleph Moment when the completed TOE's effects kick in." - from Kirkus review, 15 April, 1977. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-365. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.
LUMINOUS.
London: Millennium An Orion Book, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects ten short stories first published in INTERZONE and ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION between 1993 and 1998. Egan's third collection of short fiction. Notable short works from near the end of the twentieth century are assembled in two collections, AXIOMATIC (1995) and LUMINOUS (1998). Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-366.
QUARANTINE.
London, Sydney, Auckland, Johannesburg: Legend An Imprint of Century, [1992]. Octavo, boards. First edition. QUARANTINE "effectively, and literally, encapsulates a near-future private-eye plot, of the sort familiar to readers of cyberpunk, within a solar system now enclosed by a vast enigmatic bubble that hides the stars. The unfoldings of the plot, and of its implications about human identity in a world (or complex of parallel worlds) controllable at the quantum level through computer-augmented brain functions, is extremely intricate." - John Clute and others, SFE (online). The author's first SF novel.
TERANESIA.
London: Victor Gollancz, [1999]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "An example of the more character-focused Egan, with a particular emphasis on biological evolution and sexuality." - John Clute and Others, SFE (online). Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-368.