Greg Egan

In a world where the cells that make up our bodies are not committed to any one organism, Marla is confronted by the fickleness of her cytes and resolves to understand them with help from Ada, a centuries-old Flourisher. Ruth seeks the perfect mix of cytes, but faces her own crisis, and as the technology to manipulate cytes advances, all three are drawn into a struggle to shape the future of life.

Phoresis and Other Journeys contains three novellas from Hugo Award-winning author Greg Egan.

Sleep and the Soul contains ten stories from Hugo Award-winning author Greg Egan.

When Cara Leon goes missing, P.I. Sam Mujrif is hired to investigate. Cara is 8 times taller than Sam, but evidence soon points to players much smaller than either of them — and technology with the potential to radically alter the balance of power between the scales.

Del lives in a world of many skies: by passing through the Hoops, her people can walk freely between land that lies beneath different constellations. When the famed Book of All Skies is stolen, the theft sets in motion a series of events that will see her travelling farther than she had ever imagined possible, and her understanding of her world and its history irrevocably transformed.

“Instantiation” is a collection of eleven science fiction stories by Hugo Award winning author Greg Egan.

On a world where light can only travel outside a “dark cone” that stretches to the left and right, two species share bodies and combine their senses to make it possible to perceive more of their surroundings. But when surveyors Seth and Theo join an expedition to the edge of the habitable zone, they find a fissure in the surface of the world, so deep and wide that no one can perceive its limits

Luminous is a collection of ten stories: “Chaff” “Mitochondrial Eve” “Luminous” “Mister Volition” “Cocoon” “Transition Dreams” “Silver Fire” “Reasons to Be Cheerful” “Our Lady of Chernobyl” “The Planck Dive”

Oceanic is a collection of twelve stories, including the Hugo-award-winning title story.

Cass has stumbled on a set of quantum graphs that might comprise the fundamental particles of an entirely different kind of physics, and she has travelled three hundred and seventy light years to Mimosa Station, a remote experimental facility, in the hope of bringing this tantalising alternative to life. But her experiment creates a new kind of vacuum, expanding at half the speed of light.

Prabir Suresh lives in paradise, a 9-year-old boy with an island all his own: to name, to explore, and to populate with imaginary creatures. Twenty years later, when reports begin to appear of strange new species of plants and animals being found throughout the region, Prabir is forced to confront his past and to face the painful realities that have shaped his life.

In 2975, the orphan Yatima is grown from a randomly mutated digital mind seed in the conceptory of Konishi polis.

Andrew Worth is a science journalist with optic nerve taps and a gut full of memory chips. He turns down a chance to report on a baffling new mental disorder known as Distress and takes an assignment covering the Einstein Centenary Conference on the artificial island of Stateless, where a young South African physicist, Violet Mosala, is expected to unveil her candidate for a Theory of Everything.

Axiomatic is a collection of eighteen short stories, including “The Infinite Assassin”, “Learning to Be Me” and the title story “Axiomatic”.

Paul Durham keeps making Copies of himself: software simulations of his own brain and body which can be run in virtual reality. Maria Deluca is addicted to the Autoverse: a virtual world that follows a simple set of rules as its “laws of physics”. Paul makes Maria a very strange offer: design a seed for an entire virtual biosphere — a feat far beyond the capacity of all the world’s computers.

In 2034, the stars went out. An unknown agency surrounded the solar system with an impenetrable barrier, concealing the universe from humanity’s gaze. In 2067, Nick Stavrianos is hired to investigate the disappearance of Laura Andrews from the institution where she was being cared for. Aided by a skull full of neural modifications, he follows her trail to the Republic of New Hong Kong.