Egad - Egan!
Jul. 13th, 2008 02:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lprovenThere is, after an interval of far too many years, a new book out by one of my favourite writers, Greg Egan. It's called Incandescence. You can read more about it there - there's even a YouTube trailer, which I'm unable to see here at the office.
Well worth knowing in addition to this is that Egan has put an earlier short story set in the same universe online on his site for free. And it's bloody good, too. (If you like this sort of thing, which I personally do, very much. Egan's written more of my favourite short stories than any other single writer, and his novels are blinding too.)
It is called "Riding the Crocodile" and it is well worth an hour or so of your attention. (I devoured it in rather a lot less, myself.)
As for the book, I don't know yet. I'm waiting for the standard-size paperback; I obscurely resent paying a fiver or so extra for a slightly bigger P/B printed up from the hardback page layouts. Thus I am resisting, with some effort, buying Incandescence just yet.
I'm currently on a Kim Stanley Robinson jag. I've reread RGB Mars more times than I can remember now, including in the last year. I've just finished rereading the whole Three Californias set, for the first time since I got all three, and am currently happily immersed in Escape from Kathmandu, which I've only previously read partially - its four component novellas were published individually in Asimov's (or Analog, I forget) something like 20y ago, before I subscribed, and I enjoyed them immensely back then. Must find a copy of Antarctica and the remaining anthologies now. And I do mean "now".
(I also really must re-subscribe to Analog & Asimov's. They deserve our support. I let them go, with extreme reluctance, during an economy drive a few years ago.)
Well worth knowing in addition to this is that Egan has put an earlier short story set in the same universe online on his site for free. And it's bloody good, too. (If you like this sort of thing, which I personally do, very much. Egan's written more of my favourite short stories than any other single writer, and his novels are blinding too.)
It is called "Riding the Crocodile" and it is well worth an hour or so of your attention. (I devoured it in rather a lot less, myself.)
As for the book, I don't know yet. I'm waiting for the standard-size paperback; I obscurely resent paying a fiver or so extra for a slightly bigger P/B printed up from the hardback page layouts. Thus I am resisting, with some effort, buying Incandescence just yet.
I'm currently on a Kim Stanley Robinson jag. I've reread RGB Mars more times than I can remember now, including in the last year. I've just finished rereading the whole Three Californias set, for the first time since I got all three, and am currently happily immersed in Escape from Kathmandu, which I've only previously read partially - its four component novellas were published individually in Asimov's (or Analog, I forget) something like 20y ago, before I subscribed, and I enjoyed them immensely back then. Must find a copy of Antarctica and the remaining anthologies now. And I do mean "now".
(I also really must re-subscribe to Analog & Asimov's. They deserve our support. I let them go, with extreme reluctance, during an economy drive a few years ago.)
