Diaspora
- 352
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Diaspora” takes hard science fiction as far as it goes: physics and mathematics are the substance of the novel, not its decoration. Readers already at home in that science rate it very highly, and it feels strikingly modern for a book of the 1990s. Others get lost in the technical chapters; some of them follow the story anyway, while others feel that long lectures crowd out the characters.
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About the book
Diaspora is a hard science fiction novel by the Australian writer Greg Egan which first appeared in print in 1997. It originated as the short story "Wang's Carpets" which originally appeared in the Greg Bear-edited anthology New Legends. The story appears as a chapter of the novel.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.9 across 162 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 52% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.4 | 16 | 10% |
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 146 | 90% |
Frequently asked
How long is Diaspora?
It has 352 pages — shorter than 71% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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