- Taschenbuch: 464 Seiten
- Verlag: Eos (8. Januar 1998)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0061057274
- ISBN-13: 978-0061057274
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 16,8 x 10,7 x 2,5 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.4 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (10 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.451.382 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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After developing a lengthy exposé on "frankenscience," SeeNet reporter Andrew Worth is burnt out. So burnt that he passes up a plum assignment covering the new disease "Distress." Instead, he asks for a lower-key job profiling Violet Mosala, a scientist who earned a Nobel Prize at the age of 25 and who is about to announce her version of the Theory of Everything. The TOE is an attempt to explain how all scientific theories fit together, but it may actually be the catalyst that created the universe, making Violet the "Keystone" of the universe. So much for the quiet assignment ...
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About 60 years from now, SeeNet journalist and narrator Andrew Worth (he has a camera and computer software hardwired into his body) muscles in on a colleague's assignment to cover a physics convention on the artificial coral island, Stateless, at which Nobel laureate Violet Mosala is expected to announce a watertight Theory of Everything (TOE). The event, however, is complicated by the presence of several noisy anti-science cult groups--among them the mysterious and secretive Anthrocosmologists who believe that whoever first formulates the TOE will become the Keystone in which the completed TOE, mingling information theory with particle physics, will actually change the structure of the universe. Andrew's Anthrocosmology contact, Akili Kuwale, a ``gender migrant'' (s/he has no breasts or sexual organs), warns that a particularly violent, extreme faction intends to assassinate Violet to prevent the Aleph Moment when the completed TOE's effects kick in. Soon, Andrew falls sick--the extremists have infected him, intending that he pass the virus on to Violet; she falls ill, but has arranged for supercomputers to complete her calculations and disseminate the results. As the extremists redouble their violent efforts, Stateless's former owners send mercenaries to recapture the island, while a sort of reverse echo of the Aleph Moment results in a wave of mass insanity, or Distress, whose victims apparently have all turned into Keystones! Challenging, well informed, and iconoclastic, but also abstruse and often heavy: admirable rather than enjoyable, but an impressive first hardcover nonetheless. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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From the opening "revival" scene that I had to read three times to the final page, Distress was a great read. I really enjoyed his play with gender--ve and ver, for example, were intriguing. The Theory of Everything was scientific enough to be credible, but written such that even a non-science reader could appreciate it. And the concept of "Stateless" was great. This is science fiction as it is meant to be: plausible, but pushing the envelope.
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Epistemology and TOE metaphysics stretched together in the best work of fiction I have ever read on the subjects. The rationals are top notch as are allways with Egan, embroidering here his most ambitious and compelling work to date. One of the very few writers in the same intelectual league with Stanislaw Lem.
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Greg Egan's "Distress" is a most unusual work of science fiction. Most of the story takes place on Earth in the middle of the next century, but on an artificially created island called "Stateless" that is diplomatically shunned by most of the rest of the world because of how it was created. On the island, a convention is gathering to decide on the new "Theory of Everything" which is supposed to be as revolutionary as the Theory of Relativity. Lurking in the background is a new psychological malady named Distress, which is somehow linked to these events. Egan is a good storyteller and "Distress," like most of the best science fiction, is brimming with unusual ideas.
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Bring Your Mind, But also a Magic Marker
In "Distress", Greg Egan has provided a thought-provoking vision of the future, and a chilling view of the essence of reality. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 5. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
thought provoking and immensely enjoyable
The exposition blew my mind more than anything I've read in a long time - it's soemthing you have to read. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 25. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
Another example of reckless pseudoscience
Stereotypes abound in this inane novel that dares call itself SCIENCE fiction. So, I suppose those that don't endorse the Big Bang and the 'uselessness' of intimacy are all... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 26. März 1999 veröffentlicht
Refreshingly cerebral!
I am not a regular reader of much speculative fiction, however Egan's work (which I picked up basically on a whim) may change that. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 9. März 1999 von lukecragg@excite.com
Existential despair?
This book seems to advocate the idea that life is inherently meaningless. This may be true, but most existentialists believe in giving artificial meanings to life. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 6. März 1999 veröffentlicht
Real "Hard" Science Fiction
This conclusion to the cycle of Permutation City and Quarantine is as good as the first to. The satisfaction of reading one of Egan's books is incredible and this story is... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 17. Dezember 1998 veröffentlicht
The kind of science fiction I'm tired of.
This is one of those books that tells me how stupid & delusional I am & I'm sick of it. I've liked some of egan's stories in Asimov's, Axiomatic, & elsewhere, but I'll... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 27. Juni 1998 veröffentlicht
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