false 156785 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162m/156785.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162s/156785.jpg Diaspora, written by Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Greg Egan, transcends millennia and universes in the tradition of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus, Camille Flammarion's Omega, and Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men. Diaspora is packed with mind-bending ideas extrapolated from cutting-edge cosmology, physics, and consciousness theory to create an astonishing hard-SF novel inhabited by very strange yet always believable characters. Diaspora is why people read SF. --Cynthia Ward

]]> 156785 7 1007609 book 1997 Diaspora total:214|5:78|4:89|3:39|2:6|1:2| 214 877 357 24 32699 3.88 1666 234 58936578 1435460 156785 3453161815 9783453161818 21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162m/156785.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162s/156785.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156785.Diaspora 4.13 186 Diaspora, written by Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Greg Egan, transcends millennia and universes in the tradition of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus, Camille Flammarion's Omega, and Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men. Diaspora is packed with mind-bending ideas extrapolated from cutting-edge cosmology, physics, and consciousness theory to create an astonishing hard-SF novel inhabited by very strange yet always believable characters. Diaspora is why people read SF. --Cynthia Ward

]]> 1997 4 0 false Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 19:19:37 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 19:36:42 -0700 2009 Diaspora, already 11 years old, is so far ahead of the curve that it still blows my mind every time I read it (this is my sixth read)!

Most scifi writers like Vernor Vinge sidestep the technological singularity but Egan uses the singularity ...more...]]> 37874856 65714 156785 3453161815 9783453161818 21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162m/156785.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162s/156785.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156785.Diaspora 4.10 214 Diaspora, written by Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Greg Egan, transcends millennia and universes in the tradition of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus, Camille Flammarion's Omega, and Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men. Diaspora is packed with mind-bending ideas extrapolated from cutting-edge cosmology, physics, and consciousness theory to create an astonishing hard-SF novel inhabited by very strange yet always believable characters. Diaspora is why people read SF. --Cynthia Ward

]]> 1997 4 0 false Sun Nov 16 11:53:39 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 07:49:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 28718500 1215621 156785 3453161815 9783453161818 21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162m/156785.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162s/156785.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156785.Diaspora 4.10 214 Diaspora, written by Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Greg Egan, transcends millennia and universes in the tradition of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus, Camille Flammarion's Omega, and Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men. Diaspora is packed with mind-bending ideas extrapolated from cutting-edge cosmology, physics, and consciousness theory to create an astonishing hard-SF novel inhabited by very strange yet always believable characters. Diaspora is why people read SF. --Cynthia Ward

]]> 1997 5 1 true Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Wed Jul 30 03:56:52 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 01:44:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 33573395 1555114 156785 3453161815 9783453161818 21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162m/156785.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162s/156785.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156785.Diaspora 4.10 214 Diaspora, written by Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Greg Egan, transcends millennia and universes in the tradition of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus, Camille Flammarion's Omega, and Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men. Diaspora is packed with mind-bending ideas extrapolated from cutting-edge cosmology, physics, and consciousness theory to create an astonishing hard-SF novel inhabited by very strange yet always believable characters. Diaspora is why people read SF. --Cynthia Ward

]]> 1997 5 1 false Mon Sep 22 19:31:19 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 22 19:32:32 -0700 2008 237668 21704 156785 3453161815 9783453161818 21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162m/156785.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162s/156785.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156785.Diaspora 4.10 214 Diaspora, written by Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Greg Egan, transcends millennia and universes in the tradition of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus, Camille Flammarion's Omega, and Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men. Diaspora is packed with mind-bending ideas extrapolated from cutting-edge cosmology, physics, and consciousness theory to create an astonishing hard-SF novel inhabited by very strange yet always believable characters. Diaspora is why people read SF. --Cynthia Ward

]]> 1997 5 1 false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Mar 12 05:56:15 -0700 2007 Mon Mar 12 06:01:54 -0700 2007 15299706 898792 156785 3453161815 9783453161818 21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162m/156785.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162s/156785.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156785.Diaspora 4.10 214 Diaspora, written by Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Greg Egan, transcends millennia and universes in the tradition of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus, Camille Flammarion's Omega, and Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men. Diaspora is packed with mind-bending ideas extrapolated from cutting-edge cosmology, physics, and consciousness theory to create an astonishing hard-SF novel inhabited by very strange yet always believable characters. Diaspora is why people read SF. --Cynthia Ward

]]> 1997 5 1 false Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Tue Feb 12 20:53:11 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 01 23:25:40 -0800 2008 34976943 1608779 156785 3453161815 9783453161818 21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162m/156785.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162s/156785.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156785.Diaspora 4.10 214 Diaspora, written by Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Greg Egan, transcends millennia and universes in the tradition of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus, Camille Flammarion's Omega, and Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men. Diaspora is packed with mind-bending ideas extrapolated from cutting-edge cosmology, physics, and consciousness theory to create an astonishing hard-SF novel inhabited by very strange yet always believable characters. Diaspora is why people read SF. --Cynthia Ward

]]> 1997 5 1 false Fri Oct 10 08:25:03 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 12 09:48:08 -0700 2009 29739703 1372235 156785 3453161815 9783453161818 21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162m/156785.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162s/156785.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156785.Diaspora 4.10 214 Diaspora, written by Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Greg Egan, transcends millennia and universes in the tradition of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus, Camille Flammarion's Omega, and Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men. Diaspora is packed with mind-bending ideas extrapolated from cutting-edge cosmology, physics, and consciousness theory to create an astonishing hard-SF novel inhabited by very strange yet always believable characters. Diaspora is why people read SF. --Cynthia Ward

]]> 1997 4 0 false Sat Aug 09 21:32:34 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 09 22:09:47 -0700 2008
"Diaspora" depicts a far-future humanity that has chosen ...more...]]> 25783490 891651 156785 3453161815 9783453161818 21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162m/156785.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162s/156785.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156785.Diaspora 4.10 214 Diaspora, written by Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Greg Egan, transcends millennia and universes in the tradition of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus, Camille Flammarion's Omega, and Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men. Diaspora is packed with mind-bending ideas extrapolated from cutting-edge cosmology, physics, and consciousness theory to create an astonishing hard-SF novel inhabited by very strange yet always believable characters. Diaspora is why people read SF. --Cynthia Ward

]]> 1997 2 0 true Fri Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 18:25:27 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 22:54:28 -0700 2008
1. A universe-sized natural disaster forced people out of the usual three dimension into multi-dimensional space.
2. You needed a pair of extra ...more...]]> 38154088 1732722 156785 3453161815 9783453161818 21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162m/156785.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162s/156785.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156785.Diaspora 4.10 214 Diaspora, written by Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Greg Egan, transcends millennia and universes in the tradition of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus, Camille Flammarion's Omega, and Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men. Diaspora is packed with mind-bending ideas extrapolated from cutting-edge cosmology, physics, and consciousness theory to create an astonishing hard-SF novel inhabited by very strange yet always believable characters. Diaspora is why people read SF. --Cynthia Ward

]]> 1997 5 0 false Wed Nov 19 12:34:55 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 12:38:23 -0800 2008 more...]]> 81678422 1836306 156785 3453161815 9783453161818 21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162m/156785.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162s/156785.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156785.Diaspora 4.10 214 Diaspora, written by Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Greg Egan, transcends millennia and universes in the tradition of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus, Camille Flammarion's Omega, and Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men. Diaspora is packed with mind-bending ideas extrapolated from cutting-edge cosmology, physics, and consciousness theory to create an astonishing hard-SF novel inhabited by very strange yet always believable characters. Diaspora is why people read SF. --Cynthia Ward

]]> 1997 5 0 false Mon Dec 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 21 13:20:52 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 21 13:21:37 -0800 2009 53758128 2242034 1151990 0061052817 9780061052811 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181433947m/1151990.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181433947s/1151990.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1151990.Diaspora_A_Novel 4.00 13 Diaspora, written by Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Greg Egan, transcends millennia and universes in the tradition of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus, Camille Flammarion's Omega, and Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men. Diaspora is packed with mind-bending ideas extrapolated from cutting-edge cosmology, physics, and consciousness theory to create an astonishing hard-SF novel inhabited by very strange yet always believable characters. Diaspora is why people read SF. --Cynthia Ward

]]> 1997 2 0 false Tue Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 23 15:17:35 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 21:31:38 -0700 2009 35195979 1616561 156785 3453161815 9783453161818 21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162m/156785.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162s/156785.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156785.Diaspora 4.10 214 Diaspora, written by Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Greg Egan, transcends millennia and universes in the tradition of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus, Camille Flammarion's Omega, and Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men. Diaspora is packed with mind-bending ideas extrapolated from cutting-edge cosmology, physics, and consciousness theory to create an astonishing hard-SF novel inhabited by very strange yet always believable characters. Diaspora is why people read SF. --Cynthia Ward

]]> 1997 4 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1998 Mon Oct 13 11:11:28 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 13 11:14:55 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 8669255 98458 156785 3453161815 9783453161818 21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162m/156785.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162s/156785.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156785.Diaspora 4.10 214 Diaspora, written by Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Greg Egan, transcends millennia and universes in the tradition of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus, Camille Flammarion's Omega, and Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men. Diaspora is packed with mind-bending ideas extrapolated from cutting-edge cosmology, physics, and consciousness theory to create an astonishing hard-SF novel inhabited by very strange yet always believable characters. Diaspora is why people read SF. --Cynthia Ward

]]> 1997 2 1 false Tue Nov 06 17:12:43 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 04 17:48:42 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 04 17:48:49 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4473377 273410 156785 3453161815 9783453161818 21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162m/156785.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162s/156785.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156785.Diaspora 4.10 214 Diaspora, written by Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Greg Egan, transcends millennia and universes in the tradition of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus, Camille Flammarion's Omega, and Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men. Diaspora is packed with mind-bending ideas extrapolated from cutting-edge cosmology, physics, and consciousness theory to create an astonishing hard-SF novel inhabited by very strange yet always believable characters. Diaspora is why people read SF. --Cynthia Ward

]]> 1997 0 0 false Thu Oct 18 08:40:26 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 13 08:31:51 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 27 15:24:19 -0700 2007 diaspora has utterly failed to grab my attention, which i didn't expect from a greg egan book at all. i'm hoping that perhaps it would appeal more to those with a deep-seated love of mathematics, and i do intend to come back to it at some point, but for now, it'...more...]]> 1476398 101221 1021482 0061057983 9780061057984 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180297335m/1021482.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180297335s/1021482.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1021482.Diaspora_A_Novel 3.56 9 Diaspora, written by Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Greg Egan, transcends millennia and universes in the tradition of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus, Camille Flammarion's Omega, and Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men. Diaspora is packed with mind-bending ideas extrapolated from cutting-edge cosmology, physics, and consciousness theory to create an astonishing hard-SF novel inhabited by very strange yet always believable characters. Diaspora is why people read SF. --Cynthia Ward

]]> 1997 0 0 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun May 27 13:22:37 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 20:11:39 -0800 2009 Olaf Stapledon on crack, basically. I got it in the first place because of Ken MacLeod's bifurcated opinion which is referenced in an interview in his Wikipedia entry -he admired the book but hated the world!





]]> 33705033 667483 156785 3453161815 9783453161818 21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162m/156785.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162s/156785.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156785.Diaspora 4.10 214 Diaspora, written by Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Greg Egan, transcends millennia and universes in the tradition of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus, Camille Flammarion's Omega, and Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men. Diaspora is packed with mind-bending ideas extrapolated from cutting-edge cosmology, physics, and consciousness theory to create an astonishing hard-SF novel inhabited by very strange yet always believable characters. Diaspora is why people read SF. --Cynthia Ward

]]> 1997 3 0 false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 24 07:19:39 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 24 07:22:01 -0700 2008 1 37846085 1219444 1151990 0061052817 9780061052811 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181433947m/1151990.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181433947s/1151990.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1151990.Diaspora_A_Novel 4.10 214 Diaspora, written by Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Greg Egan, transcends millennia and universes in the tradition of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus, Camille Flammarion's Omega, and Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men. Diaspora is packed with mind-bending ideas extrapolated from cutting-edge cosmology, physics, and consciousness theory to create an astonishing hard-SF novel inhabited by very strange yet always believable characters. Diaspora is why people read SF. --Cynthia Ward

]]> 1997 4 0 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 15 23:29:01 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 16 01:18:26 -0800 2008 18747042 1027871 156785 3453161815 9783453161818 21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162m/156785.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162s/156785.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156785.Diaspora 4.10 214 Diaspora, written by Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Greg Egan, transcends millennia and universes in the tradition of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus, Camille Flammarion's Omega, and Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men. Diaspora is packed with mind-bending ideas extrapolated from cutting-edge cosmology, physics, and consciousness theory to create an astonishing hard-SF novel inhabited by very strange yet always believable characters. Diaspora is why people read SF. --Cynthia Ward

]]> 1997 4 0 false Thu Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Thu Mar 27 07:05:59 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 07:07:15 -0700 2008 4042192 210261 156785 3453161815 9783453161818 21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162m/156785.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172264162s/156785.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156785.Diaspora 4.10 214 Diaspora, written by Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Greg Egan, transcends millennia and universes in the tradition of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus, Camille Flammarion's Omega, and Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men. Diaspora is packed with mind-bending ideas extrapolated from cutting-edge cosmology, physics, and consciousness theory to create an astonishing hard-SF novel inhabited by very strange yet always believable characters. Diaspora is why people read SF. --Cynthia Ward

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