Permutation City

Greg Egan

Book 2 of Subjective Cosmology

Language: English

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Fiction Science Fiction

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: Sep 14, 1995

Date Read: Jun 16, 2015
Form: Novel
Pages: 384
Read Status: read
Shelves: read
Word Count: 109328

Description:

The good news is that you have just awakened into Eternal Life. You are going to live forever. Immortality is a reality. A medical miracle? Not exactly. The bad news is that you are a scrap of electronic code. The world you see around you, the *you* that is seeing it, has been digitized, scanned, and downloaded into a virtual reality program. You are a Copy that knows it is a copy. The good news is that there is a way out. By law, every Copy has the option of terminating itself, and waking up to normal flesh-and-blood life again. The *bail-out* is on the *utilities* menu. You pull it down... The bad news is that it doesn't work. Someone has blocked the bail-out option. And you know who did it. You did. The other you. The real you. The one that wants to keep you here forever. ** ### About the Author Greg Egan is the author of the acclaimed SF novels *Diaspora, Axiomatic, Quarantine, Permutation City,* and *Teranesia*. A winner of the Hugo Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, Mr. Egan lives in Australia.