Oceanic [Paperback]

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Gollancz; paperback / softback edition
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0575086521
• ISBN-13: 978-0575086524
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,920,859 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I am a science fiction writer and computer programmer. You can find information, illustrations and interactive applets that supplement my books at www.gregegan.net

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "Oceanic", a short story collection, February 26, 2010

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A. Fukumoto - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oceanic (Kindle Edition)

As of this writing, the customer reviews for Greg Egan's "Oceanic" confuses about the novella "Oceanic" and the short story collection "Oceanic". I think amazon.com's system is at fault.

"Oceanic", a short story collection by Greg Egan, originally published in Great Britain by Gollancz, contains the following stories:
"Lost Continent"
"Dark Integers"
"Crystal Nights"
"Steve Fever"
"Induction"
"Singleton"
"Oracle"
"Border Guards"
"Riding the Crocodile"
"Glory"
"Hot Rock"
"Oceanic"

"Riding the Crocodile", "Glory", and "Hot Rock" take place in the Amalgam universe. In particular, "Riding the Crocodile" is about an event mentioned in Egan's novel "Incandescence".

"Dark Integers" is a sequel to the "Luminous" which is not included in this book.

(Feb 27, 2010 - changed first paragraph in accordance with the situation.)

4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliantly entertaining while imbuing a sense of wonder, December 27, 2010

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Neil G. Matthews (Adelaide, South Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oceanic (Paperback)

Don't let the depressing first short story put you off reading the rest of this volume of a dozen short stories. Greg Egan again shares his vision of how extreme future technology could be used by future societies to learn that ever more mysteries await our understanding. Where lifetimes last millennia and conscience can be bodily incorporated or scanned, backed up and shot around the galaxy as bursts of gamma radiation, there is no risk of exposing the travellers (or his readers) to any boredom.

My particular favourites are the stories set in the Amalgam Universe, but all of the stories will entertain you whilst stretching your horizons - and isn't that what SF is all about?

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Australian SF Reader, April 3, 2008

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Blue Tyson "- Research Finished" (Legion clubhouse) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oceanic (Kindle Edition)

A boy growing up in a backward fundamentalist community on another planet begins to understand how much the local biology has altered the people that live there, and why a religion surrounds this.