The story of a man with a vision - immortality : for those who can afford it is found in cyberspace. PERMUTATION CITY is the tale of a man with a vision - how to create immortality - and how that vision becomes something way beyond his control. Encompassing the lives and struggles of an artificial life junkie desperate to save her dying mother, a billionaire banker scarred by a terrible crime, the lovers for whom, in their timeless virtual world, love is not enough - and much more - PERMUTATION CITY is filled with the sense of wonder.
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Rigorous hard science fiction centered on mathematical physics, quantum ontology, and digital consciousness defines a major body of late-twentieth and twenty-first-century speculative literature. Greg Egan, an Australian science fiction writer and mathematician, has earned widespread critical acclaim for intellectually demanding novels such as Permutation City and Diaspora, which explore the fundamental physics of reality and simulated human minds.
Born on August 20, 1961, in Perth, Western Australia, Gregory Mark Egan earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Western Australia. He subsequently worked as a computer programmer while publishing speculative fiction. His debut novel, An Unusual Angle, appeared in 1983, followed by his first genre short story, "Artifact," in the same year. Over a career starting in the 1980s, Egan emerged as a premier author of hard science fiction, winning prestigious honours such as the Hugo Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and the Locus Award.
Egan's writing focuses on rigorous hard science fiction, incorporating sophisticated concepts from mathematics, theoretical physics, biology, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence. His narratives frequently investigate quantum ontology, mind transfer, simulated reality, posthumanism, genetics, and the philosophical implications of rational naturalism. Although third-party bibliographies sometimes group certain novels into a sequence called "The Subjective Cosmology Cycle," Egan clarified that those books share thematic similarities noticed in retrospect rather than an intentional series. Alongside full-length novels like Morphotrophic, Egan creates applets, science articles, and mathematical notes on his personal website to supplement his fiction.
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