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Cocoon [MultiFormat]
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Detective James Glass is hired by a biotechnology firm to investigate an explosion that leveled their research laboratory. As he digs deeper into the case and discovers the true nature of his employer's secret research project, he is forced to confront the emergence of a frightening new biotechnology that challenges the convictions of his own homosexuality. 1994 Locus Poll Award Nominee, Hugo Award Nominee, Sturgeon Award Nominee
Words: 12059 - Reading Time: 34-48 min.
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Schild's Ladder [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Greg Egan
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Twenty thousand years into the future, an experiment in quantum physics has had a catastrophic result, creating an enormous, rapidly expanding vacuum that devours everything it comes in contact with. Tchicaya, aboard a starship trawling the border of the vacuum, has allied himself with the Yielders--those determined to study the vacuum while allowing it to grow unchecked. But when his fiery first love, Mariama, reenters his life on the side of the Preservationists--those working to halt and dest... more info>>
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Silver Fire [MultiFormat]
by Greg Egan
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A Columbia University medical professor hunts down the carrier of a deadly virus who has inexplicably outlived the disease's short cycle of death ... and is spreading the infection throughout a string of small towns in rural North Carolina. 1995 Locus Poll Award Nominee
Words: 12332 - Reading Time: 35-49 min.
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Luminous [MultiFormat]
by Greg Egan
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Two American mathematicians are in Shanghai to secretly run a controversial simulation on the laser computer known as Luminous, the only machine powerful enough to handle the large-number calculations they believe will expose a flaw in the basic rules of mathematics. When simulations are run using integers with values larger than the number of particles in the universe, the equivalent of 2 plus 2 does not equal 4, proving that the fundamental nature of our universe, and the universe represented ... more info>> 1995 Locus Poll Award Nominee
Words: 13260 - Reading Time: 37-53 min.
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Reasons To Be Cheerful [MultiFormat]
by Greg Egan
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A 12-year-old boy develops a deadly brain tumor that inadvertently floods his system with Leu-enkephalin, the neuropeptide that triggers happiness. Unwaveringly optimistic at his chance of survival, the risky surgery that saves his life also ends the euphoric bliss, leaving his brain with a cavernous hole where the pleasure centers used to be. The 18 years of sadness that follow are a downward spiral of despair, and as a last resort he agrees to another treatment that gives him conscious control... more info>> 1997 Locus Poll Award Nominee
Words: 13552 - Reading Time: 38-54 min.
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Transition Dreams [MultiFormat]
by Greg Egan
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A 107-year-old man arranges for his brainscan to be implanted in an artificial body, and is told there may be dreams during the transition. He will not remember his transition dreams when he awakes, but there is something subtly disturbing about being unable to identify true reality ... even if it's just for a short time. 1993
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Mister Volition [MultiFormat]
by Greg Egan
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When a small-time crook acquires a bio-electric eyepatch from one of his wealthy mugging victims, he can't resist trying it on for himself ... but the software running the imagery produces a visual affect more revealing than he bargained for. 1995
Words: 6564 - Reading Time: 18-26 min.
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Mitochondrial Eve [MultiFormat]
by Greg Egan
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At the request of his new girlfriend, Paul, a post-doctoral physics student, begrudgingly agrees to have a sample of his blood analyzed by the Children of Eve. The techno-cult claims their mitochondrial DNA sequencing has traced back 200,000 years to identify a sub-Saharan Homo Sapien as the single mother of the entire human species. Rival groups discount the claims, and the race is on to provide definitive proof. Paul's blood analysis shows the migration patterns of his ancestors, but the limit... more info>> 1995
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The Planck Dive [MultiFormat]
by Greg Egan
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[Quantum physics and space-time relativity are explored at length in this densely packed hard science fiction story.] On a planet circling a black hole ninety-seven light years from earth, five physicists are preparing an experimental ship to descend into a nearby black hole. The crew for the suicide mission will be the physicists' clones, and although the originals don't expect the crew to survive or send back information about the structure of spacetime at the Planck scale, they are secretly h... more info>> 1998
Words: 12089 - Reading Time: 34-48 min.
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Oceanic [MultiFormat]
by Greg Egan
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On a distant planet isolated from Earth since its colonization 20,000 years ago, a young boy's religious conviction is put to the test in a bound-and-weighted baptism of endurance beneath the waves of the ocean. He experiences a divine euphoria at the moment his breath gives out, and when he's brought back to the surface, the love of Beatrice, Daughter of God, flows through him with born-again contentedness. Years later as a biology student at the University, his conviction is thrown into turmoi... more info>> 1998 Locus Poll Award Winner, Hugo Award Winner
Words: 19790 - Reading Time: 56-79 min.
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Chaff [MultiFormat]
by Greg Egan
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In a future of bio-engineering wizardry threatened by drug abuse, sabotage, and bio-terrorism, an undercover DEA agent tracks down an American bio-chemist who disappeared while working on a highly classified project. The renegade scientist carried a stash of genetic tools with him into Colombia, and is hiding out in a jungle fortress laced with lethal bio-chemical boobytraps. 1993
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Our Lady Of Chernobyl [MultiFormat]
by Greg Egan
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A private detective is hired by a wealthy art collector to find the 18th century statuette he just purchased at an auction in Zurich. The courier delivering the Virgin Mary icon from the auction house to Milan is found dead ... in Vienna ... and the private eye suspects there must be something very special about the otherwise ordinary piece of artwork ... special enough that the art collector would pay fifty times the reserve price to acquire it. 1994 Locus Poll Award Nominee
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