(1999) Greg Egan, Millennium, £5.99, pbk, 295pp, ISBN 1-85798-573-7
Delightful collection of Egan’s short stories from 1993-98 (7 from Interzone and 3 from Asimov’s). Egan can fit more wonderful ideas on one page than most authors can manage in an entire book. Yes, the characterisations are weak, but that’s hardly unusual in short stories, but the SF speculations and images are mind-boggling, the underlying science is exotic (and real), and every tale fairly drips with a Sense of Wonder. If you ever wondered whatever happened to that indefinable thing that turned you on to SF in the first place, it’s alive and well and living in Greg Egan’s brain. Go get this book and give yourself a treat.
Tony Chester
Jonathan has a more substantive review here of Luminous.
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