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Luminous - Greg Egan


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Luminous - Greg Egan

 
Description: ISBN 0575082089 / Author: Greg Egan / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Ten Sci Fi short stories pbased around 'realistic' future history.

Newest Review: ... about twenty five to forty pages, is characterisation. The author has this clever idea that they either don't wish to ... more

 ... fully explore or feel would be better presented in a short form so as to get the reader to do more of the imaginative leg work and as such the normal process of introducing and characterising each of the people who appear in the story cannot be undertaken in the same way that it would be for a full length novel. The best authors of short stories have got the knack of allowing you to feel empathy and sympathy for their characters very quic...more

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Crowned Review Luminous - Greg Egan: A light in the dark, luminous (1096 words)
by - written on 27/08/02 (Very useful, 91 readings)
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This is an opinion on the collection of short stories collected under the title: Luminous. My copy of this was provided for me by a friend who wanted me to read one of the stories it contains. She kept telling me that I should read it and I said that I would. Then, fed up with my apathy I imagine, she told me that she'd mail me a copy. Imagining that she meant a print out or photocopy I said great and then this gorgeous little book arrives in the post. Many thanks Arwen although you'll never read this I'm sure. My copy is a paperback, slightly wider than usual with a mandelbrot set (a fancy computer generated image or fractal) on the front surrounded ...  Read the complete review

 

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