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Distress - Greg Egan

Description: ISBN 0575081732 / Author: Greg Egan / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / On a utopian, man-made atoll, Violet Mosala faces the greatest challenge ... more

Distress - Greg Egan ... of her career - the quest for the ultimate Theory of Everything. However, one by one, the Nobel Prize winner's rival quantum physicists are disappearing from the scientific summit. Who or what is to blame?

Newest Review: ... of physics and broken-spined copies of Hyperspace, A Brief History of Time, Black Holes and Time Warps, and - in a futile ges ... more

... ture, because I could get nowhere - volume one of the infamous 'Red Book' Feynman Lectures on Physics to prove it; also a three- year subscription to New Scientist. More to the point, I have a semi-professional knowledge of exactly how much difference the theories people hold make to what occurs to them in life. I refer you to the Divided Line, Plato's taxonomy of degrees of knowledge as knowledge, true belief, untrue ...more

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Distress - Greg Egan: almost makes me regret not picking him up much sooner (1275 words)
by jdkane - written on 19/03/01 (Somewhat useful, 36 readings)
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Greg Egan's sixth book, and one that almost makes me regret not picking him up much sooner. It concerns - or perhaps, given Umberto Eco, it absolutely does not concern, much in the way that a tangent touches but never penetrates a circle - the quest for a Theory of Everything and an epidemic of mental illness related to the Observer Effect, in a near future world that is just crying out for a proper state-of-the-nation address. One thing that would make me very happy is if science fiction authors would begin including census data in the back of their books - population, gross domestic product, education, lifestyle, legal data for the civilisations they describe. In ...

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