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Re:Post Virtual Reality Sadness by Filligree on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @04:40PM (#12962487)
Egan's becoming a better author over time, though. Permutation City is a relatively early novel... but I hope you'll look at the others as well, if you haven't already.

I think my favorite has to be Schild's Ladder, just for sheer conceptual interestingness. I ended up writing fanfiction for it.

The best one from a literary standpoint is probably the Clockwork Rocket trilogy, though.

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Re:Post Virtual Reality Sadness by squeaky-clean on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @06:15PM (#12963194)
I'm definitely excited to read more by Egan, and already own a few of his other works. I just tend to binge on sci-fi and haven't been in that mood since, well, not-finishing Permutation City.

I originally bought Permutation City because of a recommendation on HN. Schild's Ladder might have to be my next sci-fi read for the same reason. "Sheer conceptual interestingness" is pretty much exactly what I want, haha.

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Re:Post Virtual Reality Sadness by mrkgnao on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @07:42AM (#12966427)
Quick google says it talks about parallel transport. If that's true in any meaningful sense, I'm happy differential geometry science fiction is a thing. :)
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