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Instantiation Paperback – 23 January 2020

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“Instantiation” is a collection of eleven science fiction stories by Hugo Award winning author Greg Egan:• “The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine”• “Zero For Conduct”• “Uncanny Valley”• “Seventh Sight”• “The Nearest”• “Shadow Flock”• “Bit Players”• “Break My Fall”• “3-adica”• “The Slipway”• “Instantiation”

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23 January 2020
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15.24 x 2.77 x 22.86 cm
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Greg Egan (23 January 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 436 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1922240338
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1922240330
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 2.77 x 22.86 cm

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Greg Egan lives in Perth, Western Australia. He has won the Hugo Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and the Japanese Seiun Award for best translated fiction.

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Captain Pig

Not a patch on his earlier work

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 28 June 2022

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I first came across Greg Egan's collection Luminous 20 years ago and was floored by the imaginative virtuosity on display. Hard SF at its best, a series of 'what if' stories that didn't outstay their welcome and played to the writer's strength.

Since then he's lost his way a bit, for me. The 'what if' questions have become more obscure, requiring lengthy sections of clumsy exposition. And, even as a mathematically literate person, I struggle to care about some of these concepts he's presenting. What do they mean?

Additionally (this is a long term trend) he's focusing more on the character arc of his cast. This is a mistake, as he just doesn't write interesting characters. This collection contains a story about a refugee girl in a difficult environment who against the odds creates a room temperature superconductor. All fine, but compared with the grand questions of identity and reality of his earlier work, it just merits a shrug.

And then, as others have pointed out, the stories just stop. When you're writing a high concept 'what if' you can get away with that, but with a character driven adventure, this just doesn't fly.

Overall disappointing.

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Jean Marie Guieau

Greg Egan needs money maybe?

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on 21 July 2022

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Being a great fan of Greg Egan, I cannot hide how much INSTANTIATION is a disappointment.
Egan is a genius who has offered plenty of actual 'chef d'oeuvres', masterpieces, like Axiomatic or Oceanic just to talk about novels.
Here it is a kind of caricature. Some of the novels have rather poor ideas as a backbone and for most of them the writing tend to be lengthy. Too lengthy. 'Uncanny valley' is probably the worst case of all Greg Egan novels. It's a neat mark zero.
Also a confirmed trend, déjà vu, to mix personal political views in the story. Result is more than often awkward because it dilutes the sense with side aspect bringing absolutely nothing. At best.
So I am hoping this was a book for food, and that sometimes the real, excellent, Greg Egan will surface again with great stories without bla bla...

Martin Vesely

Not bad but not very good

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 8 April 2021

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When I read the first story, I was amazed and said to myself: "OMG, that's an incarnation of Asimov and Bradbury in one person". However, the second story was rather average and the third nothing special. Other stories are more or less average as well. Although ideas behind the stories are great, they are flat with no or poor dynamics, and sometimes boring. This is especially true for the last story - although I am a mathematican by training, I do not enjoyed quoting theorems from textbooks in text of a story, a link to a theorem is OK but to literarly quote it is questionable.

Overall, I thought I found the sucessor of classics like Asimov and Clark etc., but I was rather disapointed. Sometimes, I had to persuade myself to continue reading. It seems that the author has been paid according to number of pages as the stories could be one third shorter each.

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Thomas B. Boutell

Great fun, clever premises

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 7 March 2022

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Good characters, good stories, a fun ride. I only wish I followed his more topological premises better, I’m not a strong visualizer.

Gregory W. Ash

These stories are more approachable and personal than anything else I've read from Egan.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 20 June 2020

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As always, Egan is thought provoking and challenging. I've read several of his novels. His hard science SF is dense and usually over my head. But these stories are more approachable and personal than anything else I've read from him.
Some of the stories do suffer from Egan's usual impenetrable (at least for me) science and math. Nonetheless the stories are more human than his novels. The great thing about Egan, whether shorts or novels, is his wild imagination. One reason I read SF, aside escapism, is for ideas. Egan's ideas never disappoint.

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