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🚀 Ah, the timeless pursuit of explaining the universe with jargon that even Sheldon Cooper would roll his eyes at. Greg Egan's latest attempt at making geometry sound exciting is like trying to turn a math lecture into a rock concert—spoiler alert: it’s still just math. 🔍 #PolyhedronMadness
https://www.gregegan.net/SCIENCE/Steffen/Steffen.html #PolyhedronMadness #GregEgan #MathExplained #ScienceHumor #GeometryFun #HackerNews #ngated

Steffen's Polyhedron – Greg Egan

https://www.gregegan.net/SCIENCE/Steffen/Steffen.html

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552615

#HackerNews #SteffensPolyhedron #GregEgan #SciFi #MathArt #Geometry #Exploration

Crystal Nights by Greg Egan

https://www.gregegan.net/MISC/CRYSTAL/Crystal.html

#HackerNews #CrystalNights #GregEgan #SciFi #Literature #TechFiction #InnovativeStories

As a mail subscriber to #AsimovsScienceFiction magazine, I get a vote in their 2025 reader's awards. It was fun to go back and re-read my favourite stories for the year to decide my rankings:

Best Novella:
1. Quantum Ghosts, #NancyKress
2. The Chronolithographer's Assistant, #SuzannePalmer
3. Spare Parts for the Mind, #GregEgan

Best Novelette:
1. Most Things, #RichLarson
2. On the Night Shift, #ZoharJacobs
3. The Fight Goes On, #HarryTurtledove

Best Short Story:
1. Catch a Tiger in the Snow, #RayNayler
2. Lolo's Last Run, #EMKerkman
3. Woolly, #CarrieVaughn

Best Poem:
1. I Try to Explain the Concept of Teeth to My Alien Roommate, #RachelLinton

Best Cover:
1. July/August, #MaurizioManzieri (attached image)

- My subscription started after the Jan/Feb issue, so that got snubbed.
- For all that print #SciFi magazines are now extremely marginal commercially and culturally, this one at least still attracts some pretty great material (mixed in, admittedly, with some so-so stuff) including by veteran greats of the genre - Kress and Turtledove are still producing amazing work in their mid-late 70s!
- I found the Novella section hardest to trim down to 3, with narrow cuts for stories by T.R. Napper, Ted Kosmatka, and John Kessel.
- It was a great year for pets in SF stories, or maybe as a dog- and cat-lover I'm just sucker for them. I found a place in my heart for Lolo, Magritte, Goobler the miniature woolly mammoth, Sponge, and of course, the tiger in the snow!

The most recent #AsimovsScienceFiction to appear in my mailbox features an absorbing cover future story from #GregEgan about a dementia sufferer's experimental brain implants that lead him to a partial recovery, but also highlights a world of techbro hype, conspiracy theories, and dubious intellectual property claims surrounding the technology. My favourite story in the collection was the beautiful, very short, 'Catch a Tiger in the Snow' by #RayNayler . Also nice to see a rare appearance of a New Zealand author in a #SciFi collection, #SeanMonaghan . @bookstodon #Bookstodon

Los mejores libros que he leído en 2025

https://fsolt.es/2026/01/los-mejores-libros-que-he-leido-en-2025/

dear fedi #sciencefiction readers, i am looking for a next #book. to give you an idea what i might be looking for: i've just finished #peterwatts #rifters trilogy and i enjoyed it. my favorite piece of all time is #gregegan #permutationcity (it's still haunting me after all those years). at the other hand, i could not finish #murderbot. please feel free to throw at me anything, just don't send me to check goodreads! (sorry for tag spam, i am in a tight spot 😅)

Page 1 features the most #GregEgan quote ever: "The number of parallel worlds is uncountably infinite - infinite like the real numbers, not merely like the integers". This 1995 collection is significantly earlier work than the other Egan collection I own (Oceanic), and I must admit I prefer the ultra far future Amalgam universe approach of his more recent stories, but this is still a very solid collection. @bookstodon #Bookstodon #SciFi

Chronique hebdomadaire écourtée cette semaine. J’ai pris conscience que le mode de la santé – hospitalisations ambulatoires et quelques inconvénients sans gravité – fonctionne dans une bulle dont la trame du temps est ralentie par rapport à nos quotidiens, une bulle faite d’attente et de sollicitations.

https://san.heraut.eu/2025/07/19/chroniques-du-gard-19/

L’eau de la Méditerranée était rafraîchissante samedi dernier, bien plus que nous n’y attendions. Les secouristes l’ont mesuré à 25° C. Malheureusement, alors que nous circulions du côté de Montpellier dans l’après-midi, nous découvrions avec effroi la fumée d’un incendie qui a ravagé 400 hectares du magnifique massif de la Gardiole.

https://san.heraut.eu/2025/07/12/chroniques-du-gard-18/

Whoa, #DieLetzteAstronautin vor Kurzen wieder zu lesen begonnen, immer noch sehr eindrücklicher Körperhorror 😵

Das kann ich vorm Einschlafen nicht lesen, aber dafür Diaspora von #GregEgan. #ScienceFiction

El discreto encanto de la máquina de Turing, de Greg Egan

https://cuentosparaalgernon.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/el-discreto-encanto-de-la-maquina-de-turing-de-greg-egan/ – Traducción al castellano de un relato corto de Greg Egan (via Cuentos para Alguernón)

There's no-one like Greg Egan when it comes to taking a simple idea (imagine if the world had different scales of dimension all interleaved) and going barmy with it. This is classic Egan brain-hurting and I love it.

https://bookwyrm.social/book/774622/s/scale

#GregEgan #Scale

I just finished #Scale by #GregEgan and, as usual, I'm left with a hurty brain but also an intriguing story.

Here's an intro to it: https://www.gregegan.net/SCALE/SCALE.html

So, yeah, wild premise that's not fantasy it's (very) #HardSF :

https://www.gregegan.net/SCALE/01/ScienceOfScale.html

(WARNING - heavy physics in that linky.)

So there's all that but the actual story is far more about the human condition, politics, fear, love, community. Egan's use of scale is an ingenious invention that will make you ponder 'what if.'

@InterzoneMag @IZDigital

No worries - Interzone is a cherished institution for me, it's lead me to soooo much wonder in my life.

I'm pretty sure I remember reading #GregEgan's Learning To Be Me in an IZ or maybe trade paperback collection.

That story fucked me up more than #Sartre's Nausea.

I recently read Schild's Ladder by @gregeganSF . Like a lot of his work, full of fun and thought-provoking ideas for how the universe could work, mixed with great world-building.

I am skeptical of some of the quantum mechanics stuff, though quantum mechanics isn't my area. Will post in a spoiler-guarded follow-up.

#reading #book #GregEgan #scifi

Right. So way behind posting Book 6 of #HaveRead which was Greg Egan again. Perihelion Summer is a great novella? Short novel? Or real page turner with lots of climate change? It glances off some of the physics flyby in "Instantiation" but in this case objects perturb the Earth's orbit so we get instant crisis. A short version of KSR's "Ministry for the Future" is in here. And maybe better for being shorter and local.

#GregEgan #PerihelionSummer #books #sf

Book 4: The #SF anthology "#Instantiation" by #GregEgan. This hits some of the points he usually dives deep on: physics, math, escape. If you liked "Orthogonal" this will scratch some of the same itches in places.

Amidst all the chat-GPT #AI hype this is a good antidote.

Sequence starting with "Bit Players" was creative. A good counterpoint to transhumanism mind upload stuff.

The Pane in "The Slipway" from 2019 hit a lot of the slide into fascism we've been living in but sidewise.

#HaveRead

@nikkiana

BACK AWAY FROM THE #GregEgan...