- Australian Science fiction, Fiction, general, Science fiction
Greg Egan is the author of some of the most surprising and intuitive short fictions in the genre. His stories range from near future predictions to far future, far space improvisations and this new collection of ten stories includes 'The Planck Dive', Transition Dreams', 'Our Lady of Chernobyl', 'Cocoon' and the title store 'Luminous'.
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- Author
- Greg Egan
- First published
- 1900
- Pages
- 295
- Publisher
- BIBLIOPOLIS, BELIAL, Gollancz
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781857985733
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