Luminous (story collection)
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Luminous is a collection of short science fiction stories by Greg Egan.
Luminous contains the following short stories.
Chaff - An agent is sent to kill a geneticist who is working in a druglord controlled stronghold in the jungles of Colombia, and working on important brain altering research.
Mitochondrial Eve - An organisation is trying to trace a common maternal ancestor for recent humanity.
Luminous - A pair of researchers have found a defect in mathematics, where something can be true and false at the same time, proving that the fundamental nature of our universe, and the universe represented by theoretical numbers, may be on a collision course for mathematical supremacy.
Mister Volition
Cocoon
Transition Dreams
Silver Fire
Reasons To Be Cheerful - A boy discovers he has a serious brain tumour, and it was causing him to be amazingly happy. Removed, he becomes despondent, and undergoes a new and extensive treatment eventually, with a form of brain network, to try and get back to a more useful life many years later.
Our Lady Of Chernobyl - A man is hired to find a radioactive religious icon. The search turns deadly.
The Planck Dive
ISBN 1-85798-573-7
The title story has since seen a sequel entitled Dark Integers. The sequel was published in the October/November 2007 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction
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