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Judgment Engine
The last moments of a universe beseiged occupy Greg Bear's Judgment Engine. Can something human matter at the very end of creation, as contorted matter ceases to have meaning and time itself stutters to an eerie halt?
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Judgment Engine is in the SF anthology Far Futures.
Gregory Benford, one the great SF writers of our day, has assumed the mantle of editor to produce an ambitous hard SF anthology: Far Futures. Many of the fields's greatest works concern vast perspectives, expanding our visions of ourselves by foreseeing the immense panorama of time. This anthology collects five orignal novellas that take the very long view, all set at least ten thousand years in the future. The authors take a rigorously scientific view of such grand panoramas, confronting the largest issues of cosmology, astronomy, evolution, and biology.
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Judgment Engine is in the SF anthology Far Futures.
Gregory Benford, one the great SF writers of our day, has assumed the mantle of editor to produce an ambitous hard SF anthology: Far Futures. Many of the fields's greatest works concern vast perspectives, expanding our visions of ourselves by foreseeing the immense panorama of time. This anthology collects five orignal novellas that take the very long view, all set at least ten thousand years in the future. The authors take a rigorously scientific view of such grand panoramas, confronting the largest issues of cosmology, astronomy, evolution, and biology.
- GenresScience Fiction
Unknown Binding
Published January 1, 1997
About the author
Greg Bear
233 books2,139 followersGreg Bear was an American writer and illustrator best known for science fiction. His work covered themes of galactic conflict (Forge of God books), parallel universes (The Way series), consciousness and cultural practices (Queen of Angels), and accelerated evolution (Blood Music, Darwin’s Radio, and Darwin’s Children). His last work was the 2021 novel The Unfinished Land. Greg Bear wrote over 50 books in total.
(For a more complete biography, see Wikipedia.)
(For a more complete biography, see Wikipedia.)
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February 17, 2026
Read as part of Far Futures.
A story of the end of the universe, where mankind has collected all remaining useful energy (somehow) into one place, where humanity has evolved into large shared consciousnesses, and in the final seconds of the universe, the teachers and the students struggle against one another. And somehow, the only way to understand this is to rehash a "cause for divorce" from millions of years before the time of the novella. Really?
2 of 5.
A story of the end of the universe, where mankind has collected all remaining useful energy (somehow) into one place, where humanity has evolved into large shared consciousnesses, and in the final seconds of the universe, the teachers and the students struggle against one another. And somehow, the only way to understand this is to rehash a "cause for divorce" from millions of years before the time of the novella. Really?
2 of 5.
June 6, 2023
I've read this one several times now from several anthologies but it's well worth the re-read.
Far-future intelligences, trying to live the grand proof at the end of time, try to rebel against the assumption that everything eats everything. The fact that all these huge intelligences are almost all gigantic libraries just tickles the hell out of me.
The experiment continues. The experiment ends. The experiment continues.
Quite a memorable tale.
Far-future intelligences, trying to live the grand proof at the end of time, try to rebel against the assumption that everything eats everything. The fact that all these huge intelligences are almost all gigantic libraries just tickles the hell out of me.
The experiment continues. The experiment ends. The experiment continues.
Quite a memorable tale.
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