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A review by cathepsut
The New Space Opera by Jonathan Strahan, Gardner Dozois
Did not finish book.
Review for GLORY by Greg Egan
An ingot of metallic hydrogen gleamed in the starlight, a narrow cylinder half a meter long with a mass of about a kilogram.
A very abstract beginning. I skimmed past most of that science-tech babble, I confess. I liked the story that followed the info dump.
However...
“There’s more to life than mathematics,” Joan said. “But not much more.”
Math was always one of my best subjects at school, but still... too much! Math Fiction? Mathematical SF?
It was ok, nice idea of a vaguely Star Trekky set-up without the Prime Directive and more cloning and uploading of consciousness. Plus that hard SF thing with the needle that I skimmed... Did I miss the big reveal, aka Brig Crunch? It probably just flew right over my head.
Glory by Greg Egan can be read for free here: https://outofthiseos.typepad.com/blog/files/GregEganGlory.pdf
An ingot of metallic hydrogen gleamed in the starlight, a narrow cylinder half a meter long with a mass of about a kilogram.
A very abstract beginning. I skimmed past most of that science-tech babble, I confess. I liked the story that followed the info dump.
However...
“There’s more to life than mathematics,” Joan said. “But not much more.”
Math was always one of my best subjects at school, but still... too much! Math Fiction? Mathematical SF?
It was ok, nice idea of a vaguely Star Trekky set-up without the Prime Directive and more cloning and uploading of consciousness. Plus that hard SF thing with the needle that I skimmed... Did I miss the big reveal, aka Brig Crunch? It probably just flew right over my head.
Glory by Greg Egan can be read for free here: https://outofthiseos.typepad.com/blog/files/GregEganGlory.pdf