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Book Description: The nine stories in Greg Egan's new collection range from parables of contemporary human conflict and ambition to far-future tales of our immortal descendants. In 'Lost Continent', a time traveler seeking refuge from a war-torn land faces hostility and bureaucratic incompetence. 'Crystal Nights' portrays a driven man s moral compromises as he chases an elusive technological breakthrough, while in 'Steve Fever' the technology itself falls victim to its own hype. 'TAP' brings us a new kind of poetry, where a word is more powerful than a thousand images. 'Singleton' shows us a new kind of child, born of human DNA modeled in a quantum computer who, in 'Oracle', journeys to a parallel world to repay a debt to an intellectual ancestor. 'Induction' chronicles the methods and motives behind humanity s first steps to the stars. 'Border Guards' reflects on the painful history of a tranquil utopia. And in the final story, 'Hot Rock', two immortal citizens of the galaxy-spanning Amalgam find that an obscure, sunless world conceals mind-spinning technological marvels, bitter factional struggles, and a many-layered secret history. Greg Egan is the author of seven novels and over fifty short stories. He is a winner of the Hugo Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award.

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