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Bitto pureiyā
Alternative title: Bit Players and Other Stories
Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 ビット・プレイヤ
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Tokyo, Honshu,
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Japan,
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East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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Hayakawa-shobō , 2019 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Seventh Sight, Greg Egan , single work short story science fiction
Uncanny Valley, Greg Egan , single work novella science fiction

'Immortality, but at what price, in what form, and how could you be you? In the near future it’s possible to build a new you, a better you, one that could carry on forever. But if you could carry on, if you could make choices about who you would be forever, how much of your past would you bring with you? Would you be tempted to maybe…edit? Adam isn’t all that he used to be, but he wants to be.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Bit Players, Greg Egan , single work short story science fiction

A woman wakes in a world where something, called the Calamity, has changed the functioning of gravity: instead of pulling everything down towards the centre of the planet, it now pulls them sideways. With no memory of her own past, she begins to question the nature of the Calamity.

Lost Continent, Greg Egan , single work short story science fiction

A young man from the war-torn Middle East escapes into an alternate future, in which he and hundreds of other asylum seekers are locked up by the inhabitants of the more 'enlightened' time in which they land.

Riding the Crocodile, Greg Egan , single work short story science fiction
Hot Rock, Greg Egan , single work short story science fiction

'Greg Egan gives us an alien technology only he could imagine–a wandering world that's inexplicably warm enough to support life.'

Source: Back cover, Godlike Machines.

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