Permutation City 2nd Edition by Greg Egan ISBN 1597805394 9781597805391

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ISBN 10: 1597805394
ISBN 13: 9781597805391
Author: Greg Egan

“Egan is determined to make sense of everything – to understand the whole world as an intelligible, rational, material (and finally manipulable) realm – even if it means abandoning comfortable and comforting illusions. This is fundamental to the whole project of SF and it’s why Egan’s Best – and his Rest – is worth any number of looks. —Locus

What happens when your digital self overpowers your physical self?

A life in Permutation City is unlike any life to which you’re accustomed. You have Eternal Life, the power to live forever. Immortality is a real thing, just not the thing you’d expect.

Life is just electronic code. You have been digitized, scanned, and downloaded into a virtual reality program. A Copy of a Copy. For Paul Durham, he keeps making Copies of himself, but the issue is that his Copies keep changing their minds and shutting themselves down.

You also have Maria Deluca, who is nothing but an Autoverse addict. She spends every waking minute with the cellular automaton known as the Autoverse, a world that lives by the mathematical “laws of physics.”

Paul makes Maria an offer to design and drop a seed into the Autoverse that will allow her to indulge in her obsession. There is, however, one catch: you can no longer terminate, bail out, and remove yourself. You will never be your normal flesh-and-blood life again. The question then becomes: Is this what she really wants? Is this what we really want?

From the brilliant mind of Greg Egan, Permutation City, first published in 1994, comes a world of wonder that makes you ask if you are you, or is the Copy of you the real you?

Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

Permutation City 2nd Edition Table of contents:

Part One: The Creation of Copies

1. Introduction: The Digital Self

2. Paul Durham’s Theory of Dust

3. The Emergence of Copies

4. Ethics and Identity in a Simulated World

5. The Copyist’s Dilemma

6. Uploading Consciousness: Science and Philosophy

Part Two: Life in the Simulation
7. Maria Deluca’s Awakening
8. Exploring the Autoverse
9. The Nature of Reality and Consciousness
10. Society Among Copies
11. The Limits of Simulation
12. The Future of Immortality

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