Luminous by Greg Egan (original) (raw)

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Luminous

(1999) Greg Egan, Millennium, �5.99, pbk, 295pp, ISBN 1-85798-573-7

Delightful collection of Egan�s short stories from 1993-98 (7 from Interzone and 3 from Asimov�s). Egan can fit more wonderful ideas on one page than most authors can manage in an entire book. Yes, the characterisations are weak, but that�s hardly unusual in short stories, but the SF speculations and images are mind-boggling, the underlying science is exotic (and real), and every tale fairly drips with a Sense of Wonder. If you ever wondered whatever happened to that indefinable thing that turned you on to SF in the first place, it�s alive and well and living in Greg Egan�s brain. Go get this book and give yourself a treat.

Tony Chester

Jonathan has a more substantive review here of Luminous.

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