Грег Иган - электронные книги

In un remoto universo dove le leggi fisiche sono completamente diverse, ruota il pianeta su cui vive Yalda, aliena mutaforma con “generalmente sei membra simmetriche”, occhi sul davanti come sul retro della testa e in grado di emettere luce. Poiché in quell’universo la luce non ha velocità uniforme e la sua generazione produce calore, Yalda è decisamente una creatura calda, ma l’ambiente si fa ancora più scottante quando cominciano a piovere gli stellanti, sorta di meteore roventi e distruttive. Il popolo di Yalda ha una tecnologia piuttosto arretrata, ma per reagire al pericolo decide di inviare nello spazio un razzo meccanico che…

THE HUNDRED LIGHT YEAR DIARY – Scientists can bounce messages from the future back to the present, but there’s no guarantee they’ll tell the truth …

LEARNING TO BE ME – Crystalline minds may take the place of human brains, but where does the self really lie?

CLOSER – Lovers exchange bodies and minds, but their experiments go just that little bit too far, proving that you can have too much of a good thing

LUMINOUS collects together one original story plus nine previously unpublished in book form. Greg Egan’s 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 Planck Drive’. Egan’s particular interests range from the farther shores of chaos theory and black hole science to bio-technology and cloning.