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Dichronauts
Dichronauts | Greg Egan
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Seth is a surveyor, along with his friend Theo, a leech-like creature running through his skull who tells Seth what lies to his left and right. Theo, in turn, relies on Seth for mobility, and for ordinary vision looking forwards and backwards. Like everyone else in their world, they are symbionts, depending on each other to survive. In the universe containing Seth's world, light cannot travel in all directions: there is a dark cone to the north and south. Seth can only face to the east (or the west, if he tips his head backwards). If he starts to turn to the north or south, his body stretches out across the landscape, and to rotate as far as north-north-east is every bit as impossible as accelerating to the speed of light. Every living thing in Seths world is in a state of perpetual migration as they follow the suns shifting orbit and the narrow habitable zone it creates. Cities are being constantly disassembled at one edge and rebuilt at the other, with surveyors mapping safe routes ahead. But when Seth and Theo join an expedition to the edge of the habitable zone, they discover a terrifying threat: a fissure in the surface of the world, so deep and wide that no one can perceive its limits. As the habitable zone continues to move, the migration will soon be blocked by this unbridgeable void, and the expedition has only one option to save its city from annihilation: descend into the unknown.
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speljamr
Dichronauts | Greg Egan
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These were last month's #MySciFiClub selections. I forgot to post them earlier.

#sciencefiction #scifi

alvingregorio Have you read Dichronauts? It was way too dense for me. 7y
speljamr @alvingregorio Not yet. It looks like it's going to screw with my brain a bit. 7y
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alvingregorio
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Too complicated to enjoy. I'm usually into this stuff, but this is Level: Neil Degrasse Tyson. I want something different but not THIS different. On the DNF pile it goes.

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StaceyKondla
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I found this to be a challenging read and quite different from the Greg Egan books I have read previously. The geometry in this was a bit beyond me, but it was still an entertaining story with an interesting sociological thread. I wouldn't recommend this as a starter to Greg Egan. I'm glad I read it and will be interested to read whatever he comes out with next. It was the strangest world with a very strange society and strange life forms.

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StaceyKondla
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Trying to distract myself with some reading while my daughter sleeps - she admitted to hospital yesterday afternoon with an unbelievable asthma attack and she has put in a super rough night. I'm really hoping she starts to respond to the meds or they may move her to ICU 😢

Pruzy Oh no! I hope she gets better soon! 7y
Read4life So sorry to hear this. Hugs and thoughts your way. 7y
Melissa_J I hope she feels better soon. 7y
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StaceyKondla
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I decided to dive into this one tonight. I'm only 27 pages in and it's crazy math and weird symbiont people. My brain is going to get a work out with this one.

Lizpixie Sounds like Ninefox Gambit! I've tried reading it a few times but the crazy math makes my brain hurt. I'll get to it when the time is right. This one is on my Wishlist, maybe I'll wait till I read Ninefox before buying it. 7y
StaceyKondla @Lizpixie - I'll have to check that book out! It sounds up my alley 😊 7y
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StaceyKondla
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Monday book mail! Great way to start the week 😊I might put the Joe Abercrombie series aside to squeeze this one in - Greg Egan is a master of hard sci-fi and I haven't been disappointed by him yet.