Permutation City
This one was a re-read.
The story is mainly about uploaded humans, insanity, guilt, alternate biochemistry in a virtual environment and other such everyday concerns.
The book is genuinely quite insightful, but I feel it no longer works as well as it did on my first couple of reads. This time round it felt like a long novella fleshed out with tenuously related short stories.
Definitely worth picking up if you’ve never read any of Egan’s work before. I used to think that he could end up a genuine SF great, but a few of his latest books have passed me by entirely.
Recommended for anyone who likes the hard, techy end of Science Fiction.