Kobo (USA), Barnes and Noble Nook (USA), Smashwords (USA), Greg Egan, 2017.Amazon Kindle (USA), Apple Books (USA), Greg Egan, 2013.ISBN13 97-23-7 (tpb) (Hungarian translation) Amazon Kindle (UK), Amazon Kindle (Australia), Orion/Gollancz, London, 2010.Diáspora, Grupo Editorial Ajec, Granada, 2009.ISSN 1120-5288 / Number 1460 (The Urania SF line is published as a paperback periodical.) (Italian translation) excerpt (“Orphanogenesis”) in Interzone #123, September 1997.This diaspora eventually reaches a planet subtly transformed to encode a message from an older group of travellers: a greater danger than Lac G-1 is imminent, and the only escape route leads beyond the visible universe. In the aftermath of the disaster, the survivors resolve to discover the cause of the neutron stars’ premature collision, and they launch a thousand polises into interstellar space in search of answers. Some lives are saved, but the Earth is ravaged. Yatima and Inoshiro return to Atlanta to try to warn the fleshers, but meet suspicion and disbelief. Twenty-one years later, news arrives from a lunar observatory: gravitational waves from Lac G-1, a nearby pair of neutron stars, show that the Earth is about to be bathed in a gamma-ray flash created by the stars’ collision - an event that was not expected to take place for seven million years. Yatima explores the Coalition of Polises, the network of computers where most life in the solar system now resides, and joins a friend, Inoshiro, to borrow an abandoned robot body and meet a thriving community of “fleshers” in the enclave of Atlanta. In 2975, the orphan Yatima is grown from a randomly mutated digital mind seed in the conceptory of Konishi polis.

Back to home page | Site Map | Side-bar Site MapĮvery orphan was an explorer, sent to map uncharted territory.Īnd every orphan was the uncharted territory itself.

“Orphanogenesis” | Ch 2 | Ch 4 | Ch 8 | Ch 9 | Ch 15 | Ch 17.

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