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After a miscarriage, scientist Ben and his wife Francine decide to try again with an artificial android child who can learn and develop like an actual human.

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  • Author note: First published in Interzone #176, February 2002.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Greg Egan's Home Page Greg Egan , Western Australia : Greg Egan , 2000- Z1029516 2000- website Website contains a bibliography, extracts from novels and complete short stories. Western Australia : Greg Egan , 2000-
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Interzone no. 176 February 2002 Z1614815 2002 periodical issue 2002
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Year's Best Science Fiction : Twentieth Annual Collection Gardner Dozois (editor), New York (City) : St. Martin's Press , 2003 Z1614820 2003 anthology short story science fiction New York (City) : St. Martin's Press , 2003
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Year's Best SF 8 David G Hartwell (editor), Kathryn Cramer (editor), New York (City) : Harper/Eos , 2003 6382277 2003 anthology short story science fiction New York (City) : Harper/Eos , 2003 pg. 342-402
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Oceanic Greg Egan , London : Gollancz , 2009 Z1614734 2009 selected work novella short story science fiction

    Collected together for the first time are twelve stories by the incomparable Greg Egan, one of those most exciting writers of science fiction working today.

    In these glimpses into the future Egan continues to explore the essence of what it is to be human, and the nature of what - and who - we are, in stories that range from parables of contemporary human conflict and ambition to far-future tales of our immortal descendants.

    Return to the universe of the meta-civilisation known as the Amalgam, which Egan explored in his critically acclaimed novel Incandescence: 'Riding the Crocodile', which recounts an epic endeavour a million years from now to bridge the divide between the Amalgam and the reclusive Aloof; 'Glory', set in the same future, in which two archaeologists strive to decipher the artefacts of an ancient civilisation, and 'Hot Rock', where an obscure, sunless world conceals mind-spinning technological marvels, bitter fractional struggles, and a many-layered secret history.

    This superb collection also includes the title story, the Hugo Award-winning 'Oceanic': a boy is inducted into a religion that becomes centre of his life, but as an adult he must face evidence that casts a new light on his faith.

    Oceanic: travel into the worlds of the future in the hands of a master craftsman. (Publisher's blurb)

    London : Gollancz , 2009
    pg. 145-205
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Crystal Nights and Other Stories Greg Egan , Michigan : Subterranean Press , 2009 Z1754786 2009 selected work short story science fiction Michigan : Subterranean Press , 2009 pg. 133-185
Language: French
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Oceanic Greg Egan , London : Gollancz , 2009 Z1614734 2009 selected work novella short story science fiction

    Collected together for the first time are twelve stories by the incomparable Greg Egan, one of those most exciting writers of science fiction working today.

    In these glimpses into the future Egan continues to explore the essence of what it is to be human, and the nature of what - and who - we are, in stories that range from parables of contemporary human conflict and ambition to far-future tales of our immortal descendants.

    Return to the universe of the meta-civilisation known as the Amalgam, which Egan explored in his critically acclaimed novel Incandescence: 'Riding the Crocodile', which recounts an epic endeavour a million years from now to bridge the divide between the Amalgam and the reclusive Aloof; 'Glory', set in the same future, in which two archaeologists strive to decipher the artefacts of an ancient civilisation, and 'Hot Rock', where an obscure, sunless world conceals mind-spinning technological marvels, bitter fractional struggles, and a many-layered secret history.

    This superb collection also includes the title story, the Hugo Award-winning 'Oceanic': a boy is inducted into a religion that becomes centre of his life, but as an adult he must face evidence that casts a new light on his faith.

    Oceanic: travel into the worlds of the future in the hands of a master craftsman. (Publisher's blurb)

    Océanique
    France : Le Bélial , 2009
    pg. 423-500
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