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8 15 y separately published work icon Permutation City Greg Egan , ( trans. Jurgen Martin et. al. )agent with title Cybercity : Science-fiction-Roman ) Bergisch Gladbach : Bastei Lübbe , 1995 Z455855 1994 single work novel science fiction (taught in 2 units) 'In Permutation City Egan has said that his main goal was "to take the idea of conscious software - whether it's some kind of scanned human duplicate, or some AI created from scratch - and push it to its logical conclusion'." The story involves human identities being 'loaded into computer memory banks where they become virtual people' (Colin Steele, SF Commentary No 77, p.53).
13 14 y separately published work icon Quarantine Greg Egan , ( trans. Jurgen Martin with title Quarantane: Science-fiction ) Bergisch Gladbach : Bastei Lübbe , 1993 Z544390 1992 single work novel science fiction

'It's late in the 21st century and bioengineering is now so common that people are able to modify their minds in any way they wish. It is an era which has been shaped by information systems so vast that security, in any form, is easily breached. Now, you can be whatever you want to be, and do whatever you want to do. On Earth anyway. One night, thirty three years ago, the stars went out. 'The Bubble' - a perfect sphere centred on the sun - appeared in the sky, isolating the solar system from the rest of the universe. For thirty-three years, humanity has lived with the religious cults and terrorism which spawned in the wake of the darkness. We are now alone. Humanity has been cut off: quarantined.'

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