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Greg Egan best books, ranked

Greg Egan — 5 titles in the rankings, first published between 1992 and 2002. They average 7.8 — level with the catalogue as a whole. 2 of the series have a reading order worth keeping to.

Editor’s note Australian science fiction writer, famously private, whose fiction takes physics, mathematics and the nature of consciousness more seriously than almost anyone else’s. Permutation City, the most read here, follows people who run copies of themselves as software and a man who builds a universe out of the idea that any pattern of computation is enough to exist. Diaspora follows digital and post-human minds across the cosmos, and the stories in Axiomatic, the best rated, are the easiest way in. Dazzling but demanding; the Orthogonal trilogy invents its own physics.

Ranked titles: 5 books
Average score: 7.8
Total ratings: 564
First published: 1992–2002