Axiomatic
- 239
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Axiomatic” gathers Greg Egan’s short fiction at its most idea-driven, each story a thought experiment about identity, time or the body. Messages sent back from the future, crystalline minds that replace the brain and lovers who trade bodies are among its premises. Some readers find the ideas more gripping than the stories wrapped around them, and single out “Learning to Be Me”. It is a compact sampler of cerebral science fiction.
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About the book
THE HUNDRED LIGHT YEAR DIARY - Scientists can bounce messages from the future back to the present, but there's no guarantee they'll tell the truth ... LEARNING TO BE ME - Crystalline minds may take the place of human brains, but where does the self really lie? CLOSER - Lovers exchange bodies and minds, but their experiments go just that little bit too far, proving that you can have too much of a good thing
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.3 across 76 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 34% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 8.3 | 76 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is Axiomatic?
It has 239 pages — shorter than 88% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
In this book
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