Dichronauts, Greg Egan
Dichronauts, Greg Egan
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Dichronauts

Author: Greg Egan

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 10 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/11/2017

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Seth is a surveyor, along with his friend Theo, a leech-like creature running through his skull who tells Seth what lies to his left and right.

In the universe containing Seth's world, light cannot travel in all directions: there is a "dark cone" to the north and south. Seth can only face to the east (or the west, if he tips his head backwards). If he starts to turn to the north or south, his body stretches out across the landscape, and to rotate as far as north-north-east is impossible.

Every living thing in Seth's world is in a state of perpetual migration as they follow the sun's shifting orbit and the narrow habitable zone it creates. Cities are being constantly disassembled at one edge and rebuilt at the other, with surveyors mapping safe routes ahead.

But when Seth and Theo join an expedition to the edge of the habitable zone, they discover a terrifying threat: a fissure in the surface of the world, so deep and wide that no one can perceive its limits. As the habitable zone continues to move, the migration will soon be blocked by this unbridgeable void, and the expedition has only one option to save its city from annihilation: descend into the unknown.

About Greg Egan

Greg Egan is a computer programmer and the author of the acclaimed science fiction novels Permutation City, Diaspora, Teranesia, Quarantine, and the Orthogonal trilogy. He has won the Hugo Award as well as the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Greg's short fiction has been published in Interzone, Asimov's, Nature, and elsewhere. He lives in Australia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on November 18, 2018

For fans of multiple world-time-lines and especially for fans of Christopher Priest's The Inverted World, welcome to Dichronoauts. Walking one way brings you to the future, the other, to the past. But space is still space and time is still time. Thanks to the little creature attached to the people h......more

Goodreads review by Erik on November 10, 2020

Dichronauts’s back cover has the perfect blurb: “Impressively bizarre… Egan may have out-Eganed himself with this one.” Yeah, pretty much. Dichronauts gives us a world in which water flowing uphill is not even its most bizarre feature. Nor that the world is an infinite hyperboloid. Nor that light ca......more

Goodreads review by Rachel (TheShadesofOrange) on May 04, 2022

3.5 Stars I loved the mathematical and geometric ideas explored in this novel. However, in terms of story and characters, I found this one a bit thin. I loved the ideas explored, but wished the storytelling had been stronger.......more