It’s funny—I also think Greg Egan is awesome, but I think Incandescence overshadows Permutation City—to the point of transforming the previous one into solipsistic wankery by comparison.
Einstein, Turing, Von Neumann, Knuth, de Bruijn are awesome. Melanie Mitchell and Cosma Shalizi are awesome. Bob K. Meyer is awesome.
Interesting. I favor Diaspora over all the rest combined.
Egan’s best ideas are scattered pretty evenly throughout his works, but there is a clear difference in quality of the works themselves. Curiously, no one seems to agree on which are best, which suggests that people value very different aspects of his writing.
It’s funny—I also think Greg Egan is awesome, but I think Incandescence overshadows Permutation City—to the point of transforming the previous one into solipsistic wankery by comparison.
Einstein, Turing, Von Neumann, Knuth, de Bruijn are awesome. Melanie Mitchell and Cosma Shalizi are awesome. Bob K. Meyer is awesome.
Interesting. I favor Diaspora over all the rest combined.
Egan’s best ideas are scattered pretty evenly throughout his works, but there is a clear difference in quality of the works themselves. Curiously, no one seems to agree on which are best, which suggests that people value very different aspects of his writing.
I’ll say. My favorite was Distress, and I was hugely disappointed by Indcandesence.
What are your thoughts regarding his short stories?