Luminous
Luminous
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Summary
This collection of Greg Egan's stories includes the previously unpublished "The Planck Dive" along with "Transition Dreams", "Our Lady of Chernobyl" and the title story "Luminous".
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Luminous by Greg Egan
LUMINOUS collects together one original story plus nine previously unpublished in book form. Greg Egan is a master of the genre and his short fiction is at the cutting edge of the genre. His stories range from near future predictions to far future, far space improvisations. His grasp of the latest scientific breakthroughs is unparalleled in science fiction. The stories include 'Transition Dreams', 'Cocoon', 'Our Lady of Chernobyl', the title story 'Luminous' and the as yet unpublished 'The Planck Drive'. Egan's particular interests range from the farther shores of chaos theory and black hole science to bio-technology and cloning.
Born in Perth in 1961, Greg Egan works as a fixed-contract computer programmer in Perth, which allows him space in between jobs to write. His short stories regularly appear in Interzone and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine,and according to Gardner Dozois, he is in the running for the title of "Hotte
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781857985528 |
| ISBN 10 | 1857985524 |
| Title | Luminous |
| Author | Greg Egan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 1998-09-21 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |