The Arrows Of Time
by Greg Egan · first published 2013
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I recommend Greg Egan's Orthogonal trilogy: The Clockwork Rocket, The Eternal Flame and The Arrows of Time. It features a finite four-dimensional universe with no time-like dimension.
on “Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy and Physics: A Topical Index (2014)” ↗The Arrows of Time by Greg Egan (Orthogonal, Book 3) deals with something analogous to this: Our characters must break themselves out of a cycle which is impeding innovation. If you like your scifi hard, the Orthogonal…
on “AI is stifling new tech adoption?” ↗…sign in the distance metric (hopefully I'm using that term correctly). Consequently, Egan has to re-invent biology from scratch, among other things. It's a wild trip. My favorite if the series is The Arrows of Time.
on “A Spacetime Surprise: Time Isn’t Just Another Dimension” ↗…bought the first two books of the Orthogonal series from BaenEBooks [ http://www.baenebooks.com/s-164-greg-egan.aspx ], then discovered that due to problems with Night Shade Books, I couldn't get "The Arrows of Time" as an ebook too. Unfortunately, other ebook vendors like Google Play are not selling a DRM-free version of that book.
on “Plus, Minus: A Gentle Introduction to the Physics of Orthogonal” ↗