false 2442081 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 2425528 6 2432715 15 5 2008 Incandescence total:71|5:7|4:22|3:23|2:15|1:4| 71 226 158 25 32699 3.88 1666 234 36436404 1594816 2425528 0575081627 9780575081628 15 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2425528.Incandescence 3.24 45 2008 3 1 false Wed Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 28 18:42:57 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 28 18:52:02 -0700 2008
Greg Egan continues to write about the far far future in an intelligent thoughtful creative manner.

On the other hand, you have to be ready to deal with things like a large portion of the narrative of this book focusing on the discovery of newton/ein...more...]]> 28881721 1377618 2425528 0575081627 9780575081628 15 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2425528.Incandescence 3.18 71 2008 3 1 false Sun Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 10:14:13 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 07:47:11 -0700 2008
It comes pretty close to a lyrical exploration of the physics of the General Theory of Relativity.

Not knowing much of the physics, I found some of it a little hard to follow, but overall it was fun, and it looks like on the author's w...more...]]> 39226306 1760867 2425528 0575081627 9780575081628 15 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2425528.Incandescence 3.18 71 2008 2 0 false Wed Dec 03 14:53:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 14:53:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 52799197 1008236 2442081 1597801283 9781597801287 6 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2442081.Incandescence 3.07 14 2008 3 0 false Wed Apr 15 12:44:16 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 12:44:16 -0700 2009 All critics who considered Incandescence were fascinated by it. They loved Egan's descriptions of a galaxy-spanning, posthuman civilization and the intellectual acrobatics necessary to understand how bugs on a splinter of rock think about their universe. But as with many of Egan's books, one's enjoy...

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Book A: standard Greg Egan stuff with hyper-post-human characters floating about the universe. The one "child of DNA" of the group is invited to check out the center of the universe in search of a previously unknown DNA-based life.

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den ena sidan beskriver en utforskare av ry...more...]]> 48486941 185947 2425528 0575081627 9780575081628 15 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2425528.Incandescence 3.18 71 2008 4 0 false Sat Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 23:37:47 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 23:46:00 -0800 2009 80102309 1937730 4621277 1597801291 9781597801294 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4621277.Incandescence 3.18 71 2008 2 0 false Sun Nov 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 06 15:32:52 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 06 15:34:38 -0800 2009 48331998 1679447 2425528 0575081627 9780575081628 15 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2425528.Incandescence 3.18 71 2008 1 0 false Thu Mar 05 11:39:10 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 11:39:54 -0800 2009 42208300 1868631 2425528 0575081627 9780575081628 15 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2425528.Incandescence 3.18 71 2008 2 0 false Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 07 07:31:17 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 07:32:20 -0800 2009 58507000 2385387 2442081 1597801283 9781597801287 6 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2442081.Incandescence 3.18 71 2008 0 0 false Thu Jun 04 23:03:25 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 23:03:25 -0700 2009 52976075 898792 2425528 0575081627 9780575081628 15 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2425528.Incandescence 3.18 71 2008 2 0 false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 20:17:33 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 15:00:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 29640351 73762 2425528 0575081627 9780575081628 15 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2425528.Incandescence 3.18 71 2008 4 0 false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 14:39:35 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 01 14:13:13 -0700 2008 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2442081