An Australian author who puts the Hard Science back into Hard Science Fiction. Likes to show his work. His novels are:
* Quarantine - The solar system is locked in a bubble by aliens. People routinely use "neural implant" devices to rewire their brains.
* Permutation City - Philosophical inquiry leads to the creation of a universe, simply by starting to simulate it and then turning the computer off.
* Distress - Political intrigue surrounding the development of a Theory of Everything.
* Diaspora - Faced with a natural disaster on a galactic scale, post-humans flee into another universe.
* Teranesia - Through quantum computing, life becomes capable of mutating into the optimum form for its environment.
* Schild's Ladder - Post-humans explore the interior of a sphere of
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* Quarantine - The solar system is locked in a bubble by aliens. People routinely use "neural implant" devices to rewire their brains.
* Permutation City - Philosophical inquiry leads to the creation of a universe, simply by starting to simulate it and then turning the computer off.
* Distress - Political intrigue surrounding the development of a Theory of Everything.
* Diaspora - Faced with a natural disaster on a galactic scale, post-humans flee into another universe.
* Teranesia - Through quantum computing, life becomes capable of mutating into the optimum form for its environment.
* Schild's Ladder - Post-humans explore the interior of a sphere of
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| - An Australian author who puts the Hard Science back into Hard Science Fiction. Likes to show his work. His novels are:
* Quarantine - The solar system is locked in a bubble by aliens. People routinely use "neural implant" devices to rewire their brains.
* Permutation City - Philosophical inquiry leads to the creation of a universe, simply by starting to simulate it and then turning the computer off.
* Distress - Political intrigue surrounding the development of a Theory of Everything.
* Diaspora - Faced with a natural disaster on a galactic scale, post-humans flee into another universe.
* Teranesia - Through quantum computing, life becomes capable of mutating into the optimum form for its environment.
* Schild's Ladder - Post-humans explore the interior of a sphere of total annihilation.
* Incandescence - Pre-industrial aliens discover General Relativity because their world circles the black hole at the centre of the galaxy.
* Zendegi - Simulations of human neural maps are used to add realism to a virtual world.
* Orthogonal - Aliens in a universe with very strange physics build a Generation Ship in an attempt to avert disaster. A trilogy, consisting of:
* The Clockwork Rocket
* The Eternal Flame (forthcoming)
* The Arrows of Time (forthcoming) Common themes in his works include The Singularity, Transhumanism, atheism, regional politics, religion being the source of many problems, and non-standard sexual identities.
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