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Units Teaching this Work
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Unit Name
Institution
Year
yPermutation CityGreg Egan,
St Leonards:Allen and Unwin,1994Z4558551994single work novel science fiction (taught in 2 units)'In
Permutation City
Egan has said that his main goal was "to
take the idea of conscious software - whether it's some kind
of scanned human duplicate, or some AI created from
scratch - and push it to its logical conclusion'." The story involves human identities being 'loaded into computer memory
banks where they become virtual people' (Colin Steele, SF Commentary No 77, p.53).
yPermutation CityGreg Egan,
St Leonards:Allen and Unwin,1994Z4558551994single work novel science fiction (taught in 2 units)'In
Permutation City
Egan has said that his main goal was "to
take the idea of conscious software - whether it's some kind
of scanned human duplicate, or some AI created from
scratch - and push it to its logical conclusion'." The story involves human identities being 'loaded into computer memory
banks where they become virtual people' (Colin Steele, SF Commentary No 77, p.53).