Reddit reviews Permutation City

• By John C. Wright: The Golden Age (first in a trilogy) and the upcoming Count to a Trillion (likewise).
  
• By Greg Egan: Permutation City (in its second half) (excerpt), Diaspora (excerpt), Border Guards, Schild's Ladder (excerpt), Riding the Crocodile/Incandescence (excerpt of the latter).
  
• Possibly Iain M. Banks' Culture series; they say you should start with The Player of Games.
  
• Riding the Crocodile and the elsewhere-mentioned Thousandth Night first appeared in the anthology One Million AD.
  
• Relevant TV Tropes pages: Human Subspecies, Time Abyss, Transhuman Aliens.
  
  In response to this comment, Egan's one example of someone who wrote near-future stories in the '90s that remain non-ridiculous.

It's been a while since I've read it, but Permutation City by Greg Egan is the first thing that came to mind.

I will copy myself 1,000,000,000 times. All of me/us would form a huge cooperative bot-net, spread out over the inter webs, and together, we will take over the world.


(btw, read Permutation City)

These experiments reminded me of Greg Egan's Permutation city.

> I agree with your review, too. I've learned an enormous amount by coming across an idea in HP:MOR and putting in the research later on - ideas and concepts posed to me in MOR have resulted in an expansion of my knowlege in at least a half-dozen fields.

I believe that's the point. :-)

Hey, have you read Finale yet? If not, go read Fire upon the Deep and Permutation City first. Mind-bending stuff.

My favorite depiction of that is in a sci-fi novel, "Mother of Storms" by John Barns. Unfortunately, the book has some horrific rape scenes in it, so it's kind of hard to recommend to people as a "good read."

Another interesting one is "Permutation City" by Greg Egan. This one kind of explores the space of various things people do once they're uploaded. As an example, one guy puts himself in a permanent loop of climbing a skyscraper. Other people do absolutely nothing but watch TV.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/006105481X/ref=redir_mdp_mobile

Permutation City is a good read that seals heavily with these philosophical problems.