Teranesia
 First edition | |
| Author | Greg Egan |
|---|---|
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Gollancz |
Publication date | 1999 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 248 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-575-06854-X |
| OCLC | 41388662 |
Teranesia is a 1999 science fiction novel by Greg Egan. The novel won the 2000 Ditmar Award for Best Novel but Egan declined to accept the award.
Plot summary
The novel explores an unusual connection between molecular genetics and quantum computing, with criticism of some of what it considers the excesses of postmodernism and feminism. However, most of the novel focuses on future south-east Asian politics (Egan criticizes Indonesian imperialism and Australian treatment of refugees), repressed childhood guilt, evolutionary biology and academic life. As often in Egan's books, there is some focus on sexuality: this time the lead character is gay, rather than one of the more exotic alternatives in other novels.
External links
- About Teranesia
- Greg Egan's Afterword to the book
- Review by Simon Petrie at Andromeda Spaceways
- Review by Greg L. Johnson at SF Site
- Review by David Mathew at Infinity Plus
- Review at Special Circumstances