On Dec 4, 2007 11:05 AM, Claus Bornich <<a href="mailto:Claus.Bornich@autocue.co.uk">Claus.Bornich@autocue.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Just came back from a long weekend to Paris, where I read Permutation City between conferences, exploring and crêpes. A very good read, truly an epic story in what seems to be the Greg Egan style, vast in time, space and concept. Written some three years earlier than Diaspora it was not quite as mind-bendingly breathtaking, but still light years ahead of much of the sf penned into existence.
<br></blockquote></div><br>I must say that Egan is IMHO the H+ SF writer by definition. Not always much ideology in his works, and some science is of course quite distorted or simplified or invented for fictional purposed, but the scenarios include almost everything which has been pondered by the average transhumanist in recent years, and more. See also Luminous, Quarantine and above all the most radically posthuman story, Schild's Ladder.
<br><br>Stefano Vaj<br>