Those Readers discussion

I suggest Diaspora by Greg Egan.

In Egan's book the Singularity is called "The Introdus". The Introdus is mentioned here only as a historical event and it's a small part of the novel, but in a single sentence Egan explains the Fermi Paradox as a side-effect of the Introdus. Egan attempts to make a post-Introdus culture plausible, by essentially limiting the maximal "speed up" less than 800 times current human.

I have requested that book from the BPL. They have 2 copies for loan.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...

The Hardest of Science Fiction

I'm reading the book Permutation City by him right now. I lost one of the logical steps in it (maybe because it's hokey but I'm not sure), but apart from that it's really good. Most of the internal logic is great.

I'm on page 91 of Diaspora. It's pretty good so far. Like your experience with Permuatation City, the writer's internal logic is great.

It's a very quick read and the writing is to-the-point. In each chapter you can kinda tell right away that the author wants to work around a certain idea. The style would be considered straightforward, I guess.

This lends to a fast-paced read, which is probably what the author is going for. I'm really enjoying it so far.

A few high points:
The formation of the "Orphan" in the first few pages of the book.
The world of the Konishi.
The topological discussions.
The discovery of information and cross-links of knowledge embodied in "Truth Mines".
The physics discussed is new enough to seem somewhat plausible. (in older sci-fi the physics is definitely outdated/hokey)

I don't want to spoil too much. It's a really pleasant, engaging read. I started it yesterday and I'm already 1/3 of the way through.

Yeah, can someone download this as a PDF or text file or something and then send it to me / the breeders?

Maybe post this comment to the BL because I certainly don't get notified when someone comments here, and would not remember to check this if I weren't reading this book already.