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ORTHOGONAL eBook Series

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  • The Clockwork Rocket

    Orthogonal Book One

    by Greg Egan ...
    Series Book 1 - ORTHOGONAL
    In Yalda's universe, light has mass, no universal speed, and its creation generates energy; on Yalda's world, plants make food by emitting light into the dark night sky. And time is different: an astronaut might measure decades passing while visiting another star, only to return and find that just weeks have elapsed for her friends.On the farm where she lives, Yalda sees strange meteors that are ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Eternal Flame

    Orthogonal Book Two

    by Greg Egan ...
    Series Book 2 - ORTHOGONAL
    The generation ship Peerless is suffering from a population explosion, and the only way to reduce the number of children is by drastically limiting the females' food intake. So population control consists of two barbaric choices: starvation, or suicide.Trying to find a better way, a biologist starts experimenting with animals, and stumbles on a technique that radically alters the reproductive ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Arrows of Time

    Orthogonal Book Three

    by Greg Egan ...
    Series Book 3 - ORTHOGONAL
    In an alien universe where space and time play by different rules, interstellar voyages last longer for the travellers than for those they left behind. After six generations in flight, the inhabitants of the mountain-sized spacecraft the Peerless have used their borrowed time to develop advanced technology that could save their home world from annihilation.But not every traveller feels allegiance ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Scale

    by Greg Egan ...
    When electronics importer Cara Leon goes missing, private investigator Sam Mujrif is hired by her sister to investigate. Cara is eight times taller than Sam, but evidence soon points to players much smaller than either of them. As Sam and his cross-scale colleagues pursue the case, it becomes apparent that Cara's disappearance is linked to the development of technology with the potential to ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Phoresis and Other Journeys

    by Greg Egan ...
    Phoresis and Other Journeys contains three novellas from Hugo Award-winning author Greg Egan.• "The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred": civil war in an asteroid colony sees refugees fleeing, by any means possible.• "Dispersion": a world where all life is divided into six cyclically invisible and intangible groups faces a terrifying new disease.• "Phoresis": the inhabitants of a double planet embark ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Best of Greg Egan

    by Greg Egan ...
    Series Book 184 - S.F. MASTERWORKS
    Greg Egan is arguably Australia's greatest living science fiction writer. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he has produced a steady stream of novels and stories that address a wide range of scientific and philosophical concerns: artificial intelligence, higher mathematics, science vs religion, the nature of consciousness, and the impact of technology on the human personality. All these ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Zeitgeber

    A Tor.com Original

    by Greg Egan ...
    From the award-winning author Greg Egan comes a Tor.com Original sci-fi short story, "Zeitgeber"For millions of years, life on Earth has taken its cues from the rising and setting of the sun, and for most of human history we've followed the same rhythm. But if that shared connection was broken, and we each fell under the sway of our own private clock, could we still hold our lives together? One ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Incandescence

    by Greg Egan ...
    A million years from now, the galaxy is divided between the vast, cooperative meta-civilisation known as the Amalgam, and the silent occupiers of the galactic core known as the Aloof. The Aloof have long rejected all attempts by the Amalgam to enter their territory, but have permitted travellers to take a perilous ride as unencrypted data in their communications network, providing a short-cut ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Schild's Ladder

    by Greg Egan ...
    Cass has stumbled on something that might be an entirely different type of physics, and she's travelled three hundred and fifty light-years to Mimosa Station, a remote experimental facility, to test her theory. The novo-vacuum she creates is predicted to begin decaying the instant it's created, but even so short-lived a microscopic speck could shed new light on the origins of the universe.But ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Distress

    by Greg Egan ...
    On the utopian, man-made island, Stateless, Nobel Prize winner Violet Mosala is close to solving the greatest problem of her career - the quest for the ultimate Theory of Everything (TOE) is almost over.Burned out by recording the abuses of biotech for his TV news syndicate, Andrew Worth grabs the chance to follow Violet's story. In contrast the world of theoretical physics seems like an ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Mammoth Books presents Wang's Carpets

    by Greg Egan ...
    Series Book 251 - Mammoth Books
    Far in the distant, post-human future, the Cater-Zimmermann community set out to refute the theory that the universe is created exclusively for mankind by cloning themselves a thousand times over and sending each copy to a different star within the galaxy. One of the copies of Cater-Zimmermann, Paolo Venetti, arrives at Orpheus; a water-world inhabited by floating mats that perform as a Turing ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Axiomatic

    by Greg Egan ...
    THE HUNDRED LIGHT YEAR DIARY - Scientists can bounce messages from the future back to the present, but there's no guarantee they'll tell the truth ...LEARNING TO BE ME - Crystalline minds may take the place of human brains, but where does the self really lie?CLOSER - Lovers exchange bodies and minds, but their experiments go just that little bit too far, proving that you can have too much of a ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD