Permutation City
The best-written info-dump ever. Egan's predictions for the near-future are looking really good 25 years on: the dominance of cloud computing, the digital-nomad life, spam filters, molecular-chem composer VR ... Still some amusing bits of course, e.g. "He was using more computing power than Fujitsu."
Reading about the legal expert-system she has free access to, I itched for the future to arrive.
There are a few logical holes in the plot which Egan helpfully erratas here.
Reading about the legal expert-system she has free access to, I itched for the future to arrive.
There are a few logical holes in the plot which Egan helpfully erratas here.