Axiomatic (story collection)
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Axiomatic is a 1995 collection of short science fiction stories by Greg Egan.
According to amazon.co.uk, in the Axiomatic stories: "Egan delivers shocking body-blows to received ideas in thought-experiment stories that like Jorge Luis Borges's philosophical squibs are booby-trapped with terrible truths and paradoxes." The Guardian sums it up more neatly: "Wonderful mind-expanding stuff, and well-written too."
Axiomatic contains the following short stories.
- "The Infinite Assassin"
- "The Hundred-Light-Year-Diary"
- "Eugene"
- "The Caress"
- "Blood Sisters"
- "Axiomatic"
- "The Safe-Deposit Box"
- "Seeing"
- "A Kidnapping"
- "Learning To Be Me"
- "The Moat"
- "The Walk"
- "The Cutie"
- "Into Darkness"
- "Appropriate Love"
- "The Moral Virologist"
- "Closer"
- "Unstable Orbits In The Space Of Lies"
