[ExI] Diaspora

[William Flynn Wallace]

Ben, I guess it was the end of the book that really turned me against it.
All those universes - I just could not follow what was going on.  If you
have read any other books by him that weren't so heavy with technical
detail and interested you, I would give them a try.  This one just did not
work for me.  bill w

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 5:52 PM Ben via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 24/03/2021 22:53, billw wrote:
>
> Just 'finished' this book by GReg Egan,  Content:  speculative fixed point
> topology, speculative nuclear physics, multiple universes, etc.
>
> I estimate that I skipped about 85% of the book - a first for me.
> Probably more like 90%
>
> Hard?  Nope - adamantine.  Way, way over my head.  Characters aren't
> interesting either.  But I plugged away just to find out if I could
> understand any of it.  Maybe 5%.
>
>
> Well, I can't say that I really understood the physics and maths in it
> either, but I still rate it as one of my favourite books ever. And the joke
> about the wormhole experiment really tickled me.
>
> It's strange how people see things so differently. I would have listed the
> content as: Life as an Upload, branching identity, futuristic reproduction
> and upbringing, existential threat writ large, elusive aliens, multiple
> universes, black holes, human psychology, etc. And wormholes.
>
> Ben
>
> --
> Ben Zaiboc
>
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