Автор - Грег Иган

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Далекое будущее человечества, где правит бессмертие… Но ведь так было не всегда. Впрочем, так уж изменились ли люди? И в конце-концов, что придает жизни ее смысл — сама жизнь или смерть? fantlab.ru © Claviceps P.

Diaspora

Distress

Permutation City

Schild’s Ladder

In Schild’s Ladder, humanity has transcended both death and Earth, anddiscovered its home world is nearly unique as a cradle of life. As it spreadsthroughout the galaxy, humanity enjoys an almost utopian existence — until ascientist accidentally creates an impenetrable, steadily expanding vacuum thatdevours star systems and threatens the entire universe with destruction. Tchicaya is a Yielder, member of the faction that believes this "novo-vacuum"deserves study. The opposing Preservationists — among them Mariama, his firstlove — seek to save worlds and destroy the novo-vacuum. Discord heats toterrorist violence; then enmities and alliances are turned upside-down by adiscovery that may mean the novo-vacuum is, instead, a new and very differentuniverse — and one which may contain life.

Teranesia

Nine-year-old Prabir Suresh lives alone with his baby sister, Madhusree, and his biologist parents on a tropical Indonesian isle. Teranesia is so small and remote, it's not on the maps, and its strange native species of butterfly remained undiscovered until the 21st century. Prabir never wants to leave, but war forces him to flee with Madhusree. He believes he has saved his sister-until she returns to Indonesia, a grad student seeking to carry on their parents' forgotten work, pursuing reports of strange new plant and animal species. Prabir follows, to discover birds and orchids even stranger than the butterflies: mutants that are evidence of frightfully sped-up evolutionary changes with no discernable cause. Greg Egan has received the Hugo Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He was widely considered the best SF author of the '90s, and one publication (Science Fiction Weekly) has named him "perhaps the most important SF writer in the world"-high praise, but not unjustified. For evidence, check out not only Teranesia, but works like Diaspora, Distress, and Quarantine.

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