Comments on: Greg Egan's Incandescence: Upping the Relativistic Ante

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By: Timian

Timian — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:04:12 +0000

I ADORE Greg Egan’s fiction. Yes, it is dense — deadly dense at times — but the payoff is immense.

By: Philcha

Philcha — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:04:59 +0000

It’s a riff on Robert Forward’s “Dragon’s Egg”. Egan’s prose is better but for me Forward’s version of the scenario works better. Since Egan puts the Arkdwellers in a resource-poor environment, they offer less scope for adventure and too much for Egan’s tendency to give physics lectures. Readers who find Egan’s physics hard to take can just skim over these parts, or try “Dragon’s Egg” and possibly John Brunner’s “The Crucible Of Time” and you’ll appreciate the Arkdwellers, who are the real story.

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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:40:31 +0000

[...] before it reaches its destination). For a modern twist, check out Greg’s Egan’s recent Incandescence, about a civilization that must eke out an existence within the confines of a planetoid orbiting [...]

By: Discover on Incandescence at Night Shade Books

Discover on Incandescence at Night Shade Books — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:36:40 +0000

[...] the Discover Magazine blog, Science Not Fiction, Stephen Cass reviews Greg Egan’s Incandescence: "Incandescence sets a new bar for hard science fiction. … [...]