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Permutation City: A Novel
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Egan is determined to make sense of everything to understand the whole world as an intelligible, rational, material (and finally manipulable) realm even if it means abandoning comfortable and comforting illusions. This is fundamental to the whole project of SF and its why Egans Best and his Rest is worth any number of looks. LocusWhat happens when your digital self overpowers your physical self?A life in Permutation City is unlike any life to which youre accustomed. You have Eternal Life, the power to live forever. Immortality is a real thing, just not the thing youd expect.Life is just electronic code. You have been digitized, scanned, and downloaded into a virtual reality program. A Copy of a Copy. For Paul Durham, he keeps making Copies of himself, but the issue is that his Copies keep changing their minds and shutting themselves down.You also have Maria Deluca, who is nothing but an Autoverse addict. She spends every waking minute with the cellular automaton known as the Autoverse, a world that lives by the mathematical laws of physics.Paul makes Maria an offer to design and drop a seed into the Autoverse that will allow her to indulge in her obsession. There is, however, one catch: you can no longer terminate, bail out, and remove yourself. You will never be your normal fleshandblood life again. The question then becomes: Is this what she really wants? Is this what we really want?From the brilliant mind of Greg Egan, Permutation City, first published in 1994, comes a world of wonder that makes you ask if you are you, or is the Copy of you the real you?Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, nearfuture dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula awardwinner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.
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