Greg Egan writes the sort of hard SF where the characters are strictly secondary, and at least half the fun of reading them is trying to figure out the local laws of physics before the characters do. His newer works are generally written better, but they’re all good.
I’d recommend starting with Incandescence, thus. His newest story (the Orthogonal trilogy) is noticeably better, but it’s also only two-thirds done.. so read that next.
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Greg Egan writes the sort of hard SF where the characters are strictly secondary, and at least half the fun of reading them is trying to figure out the local laws of physics before the characters do. His newer works are generally written better, but they’re all good.
I’d recommend starting with Incandescence, thus. His newest story (the Orthogonal trilogy) is noticeably better, but it’s also only two-thirds done.. so read that next.
Lots of his stories are online, including some free short stories.