Axiomatic

“Wonderful, mind-expanding stuff, and well written too.”
—The Guardian

Axiomatic is a wonderful collection of eighteen short stories by Hugo Award–winning author Greg Egan. The stories in this collection have appeared in such science fiction magazines as Interzone and Asimov’s between 1989 and 1992.

From junkies who drink at the time-stream to love affairs in time-reversed galaxies; from gene-altered dolphins that converse only in limericks to the program that allows you to design your own child; from the brain implants called axiomatics to the strange attractors that spin off new religions; from bioengineering to the new physics; and from cyberpunk to the electronic frontier, Greg Egan’s future is frighteningly close to our own present.

“The Infinite Assassin”
“The Hundred Light-Year Diary”
“Eugene”
“The Caress”
“Blood Sisters”
“Axiomatic”
“The Safe-Deposit Box”
“Seeing”
“A Kidnapping”
“Learning to Be Me”
“The Moat”
“The Walk”
“The Cutie”
“Into Darkness”
“Appropriate Love”
“The Moral Virologist”
“Closer”
“Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies”