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The Best of Greg Egan

"Twenty stories and novellas, each of them a brilliantly conceived, painstakingly developed gem, including the Hugo-winning novella *Oceanic*. This is an important and provocative collection, and it deserves a place on the serious science fiction reader's permanent shelf."

Audience
adult
Length
epic · 736 pages

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