Axiomatic is a collection of Greg Egan's short stories that appeared in various science fiction magazines (mostly Interzone and Asimov's) between 1989 and 1992. Contents: The Infinite Assassin (1991) The Hundred Light-Year Diary (1992) Eugene (1990) The Caress (1990) Blood Sisters (1991) Axiomatic (1990) The Safe-Deposit Box (1990) Seeing (1995) A Kidnapping (1995) Learning to Be Me (1990) The Moat (1991) The Walk (1992) The Cutie (1989) Into Darkness (1992) Appropriate Love (1991) The Moral Virologist (1990) Closer (1992) Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies (1992)
Author
Greg Egan specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness. Other themes include genetics, simulated reality, posthumanism, mind transfer, sexuality, artificial intelligence, and the superiority of rational naturalism over religion. He is a Hugo Award winner (and has been shortlisted for the Hugos three other times), and has also won the John W Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel. Some of his earlier short stories feature strong elements of supernatural horror, while due to his more popular science fiction he is known within the genre for his tendency to deal with complex and highly technical material (including inventive new physics and epistemology) in an unapologetically thorough manner. Egan is a famously reclusive author when it comes to public appearances, he doesn't attend science fiction conventions, doesn't sign books and there are no photos available of him on the web. Excerpted from Wikipedia.
