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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  makenew2 | Aug 18, 2009 |  ZB13  mcolpitts | Aug 15, 2009 | As for most of Egan' books I have read this is a tour de force elaboration on post singularity quantum computing and AI. (  ) BillHall | Feb 3, 2009 | I didn't like his earlier book Distress, decided to give him another shot. Forty pages in and I'm done. This is not a story, it's a paean to scientism. I know that life after the Singularity is going to be very strange, but there's gotta be a better way to describe life on the other side. This is barely fiction. No more Egan for me. The cover art is unfortunate - from a distance (or reduced in size, as here) it looks like a skull with a clown nose. (  ) BobNolin | Jul 12, 2008 | Diaspora by Greg Egan This was a tough read for me. Most of the concepts went over my head. At points this book amazed me but at others it bored me. I am just glad I am done with it. (  ) T_Wide | Apr 22, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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Diaspora, written by Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Greg Egan, transcends millennia and universes in the tradition of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus, Camille Flammarion's Omega, and Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men. Diaspora is packed with mind-bending ideas extrapolated from cutting-edge cosmology, physics, and consciousness theory to create an astonishing hard-SF novel inhabited by very strange yet always believable characters. Diaspora is why people read SF. --Cynthia Ward
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Thus created is the Diaspora, and humanity separates into people that live in different modes. In virtualities, as robots, or points on between.
The main thrust here is these extreme posthumans trying to work out what is still important. For example, do we make children - how do we make them, what do we make them? Things like that.
http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2007/04... (