Phoresis and Other Journeys

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Published Dec. 25, 2023 by Egan, Greg.

ISBN:
978-1-922240-50-7
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Phoresis and Other Journeys contains three novellas from Hugo Award-winning author Greg Egan.

• “The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred”: civil war in an asteroid colony sees refugees fleeing, by any means possible. • “Dispersion”: a world where all life is divided into six cyclically invisible and intangible groups faces a terrifying new disease. • “Phoresis”: the inhabitants of a double planet embark on an epic, multi-generational project to cross between the twin worlds.

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reviewed Phoresis and Other Journeys by Greg Egan

Three great novellas by Greg Egan

5 stars

All three novellas are very good.

“The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred” explores a civil war on an asteroid colony generations after the colony was founded.

“Dispersion” is about a planet inhabited by six groups that are cyclically intangible and invisible to each other. Then a new disease spreads among all six groups and the race is on to find the cause and a cure. Very good descriptions of how the six groups cyclically are able to interact.

“Phoresis” tells of two tidally locked planets where one is slowly becoming uninhabitable. Interesting and courageous folks explore possible solutions and work to make them happen.

Subjects

  • Fiction, science fiction, general
  • Fiction, short stories (single author)