For those of you who aren't familiar with Egan's work, I can't recommend it enough. All good scifi indulges in world-building, but Egan's is the most scientifically well-thought-out I've seen, as well as containing some very plausible depictions of post-humanity.
Many of his works are available in their entirety on his (delightfully 90's) website, http://www.gregegan.net.
Also, Permutation City (deals with the philosophy of uploaded minds) and Diaspora (also related to some of the philosophy of uploading) are amazing novels.
I'm actually a bit miffed because I bought the first two books of the Orthogonal series from BaenEBooks [ http://www.baenebooks.com/s-164-greg-egan.aspx ], then discovered that due to problems with Night Shade Books, I couldn't get "The Arrows of Time" as an ebook too.
Unfortunately, other ebook vendors like Google Play are not selling a DRM-free version of that book.
For those of you who aren't familiar with Egan's work, I can't recommend it enough. All good scifi indulges in world-building, but Egan's is the most scientifically well-thought-out I've seen, as well as containing some very plausible depictions of post-humanity.
Many of his works are available in their entirety on his (delightfully 90's) website, http://www.gregegan.net.
Seconded. His work is fantastic.
He has a few collections of short stories (Luminosity and Axiomatic) that give a good breadth of exposure to the themes he explores in his books.
Egan also has a nice intro to real relativity: http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/FOUNDATIONS/index.h...
Also, Permutation City (deals with the philosophy of uploaded minds) and Diaspora (also related to some of the philosophy of uploading) are amazing novels.
http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/DIASPORA/DIASPORA.h...
http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/PERMUTATION/Permuta...
I'm actually a bit miffed because I bought the first two books of the Orthogonal series from BaenEBooks [ http://www.baenebooks.com/s-164-greg-egan.aspx ], then discovered that due to problems with Night Shade Books, I couldn't get "The Arrows of Time" as an ebook too.
Unfortunately, other ebook vendors like Google Play are not selling a DRM-free version of that book.