Diaspora egan5/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() What Egan is doing is giving us background for the rest of the story – most of the characters in this books are Polis citizens and it's important to understand the way they work psychologically as well as to understand how their environment work. The discovery of otherness, the first stumbling interactions with the external environment, gaining of self awareness – all really interesting stuff. Well, not exactly side by side, but most of them in the same solar system and capable of communication when and if they want to.īut like I said: An entity is born – the first chapters tell the story of how a non-biological intelligence evolves and gains self awareness. There are several Polis around the world, living side by side with the “Fleshers” (Homo Sapient descendants still in biological form) and the Gleisners (it's never made quite clear, but probably human brains in robot bodies). A Polis is a virtual reality society, where a group of computerbased intelligences are living. Not of man and woman, but as an orphan of Konishi Polis. Diaspora is a science fiction novel by the Australian author Greg Egan.Ībout a thousand years in our future an entity is born. ![]()
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