Greg Egan’s novels are all worth reading, but his characters are essentially human, and don’t much break that mold. In particular, change over the course of a novel is.. well, I can’t think of any examples. The characters may start off transhuman, but they pretty much stick to what they were, mentally.
The one exception to this would be his newest, the Orthogonal trilogy, though I should probably note that those characters were never human in the first place. Even then, it’s mostly echoing our own renaissance shifts.
I’m pretty sure most of those reading this would enjoy them anyhow, though. There’s quite a bit on his website. :-)
It’s not a book about becoming transhuman, that’s for sure. It just happens to be predominantly populated with transhuman characters, and has persistence through transformation as a theme.
I have to question this.
Greg Egan’s novels are all worth reading, but his characters are essentially human, and don’t much break that mold. In particular, change over the course of a novel is.. well, I can’t think of any examples. The characters may start off transhuman, but they pretty much stick to what they were, mentally.
The one exception to this would be his newest, the Orthogonal trilogy, though I should probably note that those characters were never human in the first place. Even then, it’s mostly echoing our own renaissance shifts.
I’m pretty sure most of those reading this would enjoy them anyhow, though. There’s quite a bit on his website. :-)
It’s not a book about becoming transhuman, that’s for sure. It just happens to be predominantly populated with transhuman characters, and has persistence through transformation as a theme.
It just hit me that Bora Horza Gorbuchul is himself deeply transhuman, even if he scorns the Culture for relying on AI.