Mammoth Books presents Wang's Carpets

by Greg Egan

Overview

Far in the distant, post-human future, the Cater-Zimmermann community set out to refute the theory that the universe is created exclusively for mankind by cloning themselves a thousand times over and sending each copy to a different star within the galaxy. One of the copies of Cater-Zimmermann, Paolo Venetti, arrives at Orpheus; a water-world inhabited by floating mats that perform as a Turing machine.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472103444
Publisher:	Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date:	07/26/2012
Series:	Mammoth Books , #251
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	300
Sales rank:	985,871
File size:	520 KB

About the Author

Greg Egan (b. 1961) is arguably the most accomplished practitioner of ultra-extreme SF. He is an Australian writer whose work builds on the current fascination for nanotechnology and virtual reality. This really took hold with his second novel, Permutation City (1995), wherein personalities become immortal by being copied into virtual reality. Diaspora (1997) brought together and further developed a sequence of stories that explore mankind's journey to the stars.