{"product_id":"permutation-city-paperback","title":"Permutation City - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGreg Egan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Egan is determined to make sense of everything - to understand the whole world as an intelligible, rational, material (and finally manipulable) realm - even if it means abandoning comfortable and comforting illusions. This is fundamental to the whole project of SF and it's why Egan's Best - and his Rest - is worth any number of looks. --\u003ci\u003eLocus \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat happens when your digital self overpowers your physical self? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA life in Permutation City is unlike any life to which you're accustomed. You have Eternal Life, the power to live forever. Immortality is a real thing, just not the thing you'd expect. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLife is just electronic code. You have been digitized, scanned, and downloaded into a virtual reality program. A Copy of a Copy. For Paul Durham, he keeps making Copies of himself, but the issue is that his Copies keep changing their minds and shutting themselves down. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou also have Maria Deluca, who is nothing but an Autoverse addict. She spends every waking minute with the cellular automaton known as the Autoverse, a world that lives by the mathematical \"laws of physics.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePaul makes Maria an offer to design and drop a seed into the Autoverse that will allow her to indulge in her obsession. There is, however, one catch: you can no longer terminate, bail out, and remove yourself. You will never be your normal flesh-and-blood life again. The question then becomes: Is this what she really wants? Is this what we really want? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the brilliant mind of Greg Egan, \u003ci\u003ePermutation City\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1994, comes a world of wonder that makes you ask if you are you, or is the Copy of you the real you? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSkyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGreg Egan\u003c\/b\u003e is a computer programmer, and the author of the acclaimed SF novels \u003ci\u003eThe Arrows of Time\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDistress\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDiaspora\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eQuarantine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePermutation City\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTeranesia\u003c\/i\u003e. He has won the Hugo Award as well as the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. His short fiction has been published in a variety of places, including \u003ci\u003eInterzone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAsimov's\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Perth, Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 16, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42693251956799,"sku":"9781597805391","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/2386febc31e585fb8387b830c8b6d915.webp?v=1764998299","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/permutation-city-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}