![]() ![]() Agent: Russell Galen, Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary. This is a prescient parable for a time of global pandemic and social distancing. Egan’s worldbuilding is nuanced and imaginative and he expertly dramatizes the relationship between the fractions by showing fires, floods, and assassination attempts that originate in one fraction and manifest invisibly, but dangerously, in another. More than anything, this tale of survival in a time of climate change was a testament to the idea that people could react to extreme challenges with decency and reason, rather than a descent into barbarism. ![]() Taraxippus is coming: a black hole one tenth the mass of the sun is about to enter the solar system. Egan depicts this self-isolating world through the medical research of Alice Pemberthy-whose parents came from two different fractions-as she struggles to navigate the eccentricities of each fraction and find a cure for the disease. With Perihelion Summer, Greg Egan published the most accessible, engaging novel of his career. Greg Egan's Perihelion Summer is a story of people struggling to adapt to a suddenly alien environment, and the friendships and alliances they forge as they try to find their way in a world where the old maps have lost their meaning. For a decade, Dispersion, an inter-fractional infection, has resulted in people absorbing and assimilating “detritus” from fractions other than their own, dragging parts of their bodies into those alternate planes, usually with fatal results. The title of this remarkably resonant hard SF novella from Egan ( Perihelion Summer) refers to a disease that wreaks havoc through a low-tech world whose inhabitants are born into one of six fractions, parallel but incompatible planes of existence. ![]()
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