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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Permutation City, Diaspora, Incandescence, Quarantine, Schild's Ladder, Distress, Teranesia, an Unusual Angle. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Permutation City is a 1994 science fiction novel by Greg Egan that explores many concepts, including quantum ontology, via various philosophical aspects of artificial life and simulated reality. It won the John W. Campbell Award for the best science-fiction novel of the year in 1995 and was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award that same year. The novel was also cited in a 2003 Scientific American article on multiverses by Max Tegmark. Permutation City deals with a question common in cyberpunk and postcyberpunk works: is there any difference between a computer simulation of a person and a "real" person? More specifically, Permutation City focuses on exploring one possible model of consciousness and reality, the Logic of the Dust Theory of reality, or simply Dust Theory, similar to the Ultimate Ensemble Mathematical Universe hypothesis proposed by Max Tegmark. Like some other works of contemporary science fiction, it begins with the assumption that human consciousness is Turing computable: in other words, that all aspects of genuine consciousness can be produced by a computer program. Specifically, the book deals with some possible consequences of human consciousness being amenable to mathematical manipulation, as well as some possible consequences of simulated realities. In this way, Egan attempts to deconstruct not only some standard notions of self, memory, and mortality, but also of physical reality. Over the course of the story, Egan gradually elaborates the Logic of the Dust Theory of reality, the implications of which form the premise for much of the story's intrigue. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=272323 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Greg Egan, Andrew Tridgell, Andrew Morton, Jonathan Oxer, Rick Jelliffe, Anthony Towns, Con Kolivas, Paul Voermans, Rusty Russell, Adam Kennedy, Tim Hartnell, Kenny Sabir, Mark Delany, Nathan Hurst, Sir Piers Lauder, 13th Baronet. Excerpt:Adam Kennedy is an Australian Perl programmer , and one of several CPAN administrators. Under his CPAN author id of ADAMK, he is the maintainer of over 200 module distributions on CPAN which places him at the top of the CPAN contribution leaderboard . Adam is notable as the first maintainer of more than 200 CPAN modules, many of which he has adopted from other authors and included in his Open Repository which is available for use by any registered CPAN author. He is a frequent presenter at open source conferences such as OSDC , OSCON , and YAPC as well as the Perl QA hackathons. Adam has developed significant module contributions for the Perl community, particularly in the area of tools to improve the development and build toolchain such as PPI (a Perl parser), CPAN::Metrics (generate metrics on the 16m+ lines of code in CPAN), Portable Perl (aka "Perl on a Stick") and Padre (a Perl IDE) . He has also been a strong advocate of platform equality for Perl on Windows, and started both the Win32 Perl Wiki and the Strawberry Perl distribution for Windows. PPI The Perl PPI Parser has provided an essential building block for Perl 5 code analysis, documentation, and refactoring tools. Perl::Critic uses PPI to critique Perl source code against the criteria in Perl Best Practices ; the Padre IDE uses PPI for code analysis and refactoring. The PPI documentation makes reference to the truism that "Only perl (the interpreter) can parse Perl (source code)" because it is a dynamic language ; a post on PerlMonks posits a formal proof . Strawberry Perl Strawb... ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Novels by Greg Egan, Short Stories by Greg Egan, Short Story Collections by Greg Egan, Permutation City, Diaspora, Axiomatic, Incandescence, Quarantine, Schild's Ladder, Distress, Our Lady of Chernobyl, Teranesia, Neighbourhood Watch, Luminous, an Unusual Angle, Tap. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt:An Unusual Angle An Unusual Angle (1983) was the first novel published by Australian science fiction writer Greg Egan by Norstrilia Press. It concerns a high school boy who makes "a movie in his head."While it is out of print , the remaining unsold copies are available at Slow Glass Books in Melbourne , Australia.A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Diaspora Diaspora , a hard science fiction novel by the Australian writer Greg Egan , first appeared in print in 1997.Plot introduction This novel uses for its setting a posthuman future, in which transhumanism long ago (during the mid 21st-century) became the default philosophy embraced by the vast majority of human cultures.The novel began as a short story entitled "Wang's Carpets" which originally appeared in New Legends , a collection of short stories edited by Greg Bear (Legend, London, 1995). Egan later adapted and included "Wang's Carpets" as a chapter in the novel.The author appends a glossary which explains many of the specialist terms in the novel. Egan invents several new theories of physics , beginning with Kozuch Theory, the dominant physics paradigm for nearly nine hundred years before the beginning of the novel. Kozuch Theory treats elementary particles as semi-point-like wormholes, whose properties physicists can explain entirely in terms of their geometries in six dimensions . Certain assumptions, common to Greg Egan literature, inform the plot, such as the digital mutability of reality ... ... Read more

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Chapters: Greg Egan, Terry Dowling, Richard Harland, A. Bertram Chandler, Catriona Sparks, John Birmingham, Hal Gibson Pateshall Colebatch, Damien Broderick, Geoffrey Maloney, David Conyers, Sean Williams, Ben Peek, Russell Blackford, Sue Isle, Lee Harding, Keith Stevenson, Rosaleen Love, Elfric Wells Chalmers Kearney, Rick Kennett, Paul Voermans, Gerald Glaskin, Justine Larbalestier, Ian Mchugh, Alison Goodman, Kaaron Warren, John Brosnan, Kate Orman, Sean Mcmullen, Martin Livings, Maxine Mcarthur, Max Barry, George Turner, Narrelle Harris, Stephen Dedman, Lee Battersby, Gary Crew, Anthony Coburn, David Lake, Adam Browne, K. A. Bedford, G K Saunders, Janeen Webb, Erle Cox, Tom Arden, Simon Brown, Joel Shepherd, Christopher Penfold, Van Ikin, Marianne de Pierres, Dave Luckett, Kurt Von Trojan, Colin Thompson, Simon Drake, Rob Gerrand, Shane Dix, Rory Barnes, Shaun A. Saunders, Donald H. Tuck, Jack Wodhams. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 226. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Terence William (Terry) Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital (21 March 1947, Sydney, New South Wales), is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer. He writes primarily speculative fiction and dark fantasy though he considers himself an "imagier" - one who imagines, a term which liberates his writing from the constraints of specific genres. Dowling was educated at Boronia Park Public School, Sydney, 195259; Hunters Hill High School, Sydney, 196064; and Sydney Teachers' College, 196566, following which he was conscripted for national service as an infantryman and admin clerk during the Vietnam War. During these years Dowling wrote poetry and songs and some fiction. After teaching for a year at Horsley Park Primary School in Sydney, Dowling matricul...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7353980 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : A. Bertram Chandler, Greg Egan, Sean Mcmullen, Erle Cox. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Arthur Bertram Chandler (28 mars 1912 - 6 juin 1984) était un écrivain de science-fiction australien. Il écrivit également sous les pseudonymes de George Whitley, Andrew Dunstan et S.H.M. A. Bertram Chandler est né à Aldershot, au Royaume-Uni. Il fut officier de la marine marchande, naviguant aux quatre coins du monde sur des voiliers comme sur des transports de troupe. Il émigra en Australie en 1956, prenant la nationalité australienne rapidement. Il commanda divers vaisseaux de la marine marchande d'Australie et de Nouvelle-Zélande et fut le dernier commandant de bord du porte-avions australien, le HMAS Melbourne, la loi prévoyant qu'un officier soit à son bord alors que le vaisseau attendait au port d'être envoyé en Chine pour être démonté. Au cours de sa carrière, il signa plus de 40 romans et près de 200 nouvelles et autres textes courts. Il est surtout connu pour sa série de romans mettant en scène le personnage de John Grimes et pour son cycle du Monde de Rim (the Rim World series), caractérisés par un environnement et des thématiques navales, marque de fabrique de l'auteur. Il usa de ses connaissances maritimes pour écrire des fictions mettant en scène des vaisseaux spatiaux futuristes. Il reçut le prix Ditmar (un prix de littérature australien récompensant les œuvres de science-fiction) à quatre reprises : pour sa nouvelle The Bitter Pill (en 1971) et pour trois de ses romans, False Fatherland (en 1969), The Bitter Pill (adaptation romanesque de la nouvelle du même nom en 1975) et The Big Black Mark (en 1976). Les descriptions de la vie à bord de vaisseaux spatiaux et des relations entre les membr...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Kapitel: Greg Egan, Joan Lindsay, Die Gilde Der Schwarzen Magier, Patrick White, Matthew Reilly, Eve Langley, Robert Drewe, Ern Malley, Chronologie Der Australischen Kinder- Und Jugendliteratur, David Malouf, Arthur W. Upfield, Peter Carey, Liste Australischer Schriftsteller, Sonea: Die Hüterin, Nan Chauncy, Aurealis Award, Julius Vogel, Germaine Greer, James Clavell, Aurealis Award/science Fiction, Andrew Barton Paterson, Vance Und Nettie Palmer, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Mem Fox, Helen Darville, Peter Porter, Christopher Brennan, Henry Handel Richardson, Les Murray, Ian Irvine, Henry Lawson, Charlotte Jay, Tim Winton, Miles Franklin, Louisa Lawson, George Turner, Thomas Keneally, Doris Pilkington, Colin Thiele, Der Joker, Ivan Southall, Miles Franklin Award, Sonya Hartnett, Richard Flanagan, Kim Wilkins, Richard Harland, Sally Morgan, Randolph Stow, Joseph Furphy, Alec Derwent Hope, Jeannie Gunn, Patricia Shaw, Wombat Divine, Marcus Clarke, Possum Magic, Joel Shepherd, James Mcauley, Manning Clark, Ion Idriess, Beverley Harper, Jessica Anderson, Thea Astley, Max Murray, Kerry Argent, Jack Davis, Osmar White, Michael Gerard Bauer, Gwen Harwood, Gerald Murnane, William Henry Ogilvie, Kenneth Slessor, Kevin Hart, Michelle de Kretser, Rolf Boldrewood, Margaret Wild, Traci Harding, John Flanagan, Whispers of the Mist Children, David Rowbotham, Judith Wright, Remembering Babylon, Shane Maloney, Kenneth Cook. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Greg Egan (born 20 August 1961) is an Australian science fiction author. 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 (with eight other works shortlisted for the Hugos), and has also won the John W Campbel...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Lumière Des Événements, Rêves de Transition, Paille Au Vent, Axiomatique, Mortelles Ritournelles, Radieux, Eugène, L'assassin Infini, La Caresse. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Lumière des événements (titre original : The Hundred Light-Year Diary) est une nouvelle de l'écrivain de science-fiction Greg Egan, publiée en janvier 1992 dans la revue Interzone, et reprise dans le recueil Axiomatique en 1995 (trad. fr. 2006). Suite à l'invention d'une technique permettant d'envoyer des messages dans le passé, l'histoire du futur devient une connaissance commune, et tous les hommes connaissent à l'avance l'histoire de leur vie. Du fait de l'idée développée dans cette nouvelle, Egan écrit, parfois dans la même phrase, un récit au passé, au présent et au futur, ce qui se traduit tant par la succession des temps différents des verbes, que par la superposition des points de vue temporels du narrateur : « Le mariage se déroula globalement comme je savais qu'il le ferait . » Lumière des événements, in Axiomatique, traduit par Francis Lustman ... Read more

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Chapters: Greg Egan, Johnny Young, Rolf Harris, Luc Longley, Heath Ledger, Justin Langer, Hank Marvin, Dennis Lillee, Daniel Ricciardo, Kim Beazley, Barlow and Chambers Execution, Johnny Diesel, Luke Steele, Judy Davis, Cosima de Vito, William Ernest Cooke, Sharryn Jackson, Thomas Wardle, Robert Holmes à Court, Rove Mcmanus, Richard Garcia, Wilson Tuckey, Danny Green, Lucky Oceans, Daria Joura, Tony Jones, Michael Johns, Stuart Macgill, Gemma Ward, Jo Beth Taylor, George Shenton, Rob Swire, Bill Verna, Sam Worthington, Kerry Stokes, Dante Arthurs, Charmaine Dragun, Rhys Williams, Alan Bond, Shane Lowry, Allana Slater, Richard Roach Jewell, Tony Sage, Ryan Bayley, Christie Allen, Eric Underwood, Adrian Madaschi, Ric Charlesworth, Dave Hole, Jack Wong Sue, Nick Ward, Mark Mcgowan, Stan Lazaridis, Megan Gale, Chris Herd, Kim Edward Beazley, Bobby Despotovski, M. E. Clifton James, Lauren Mitchell, Chris Murphy, Harry Boan, Jamie Harnwell, Liz Byrski, Michael Sim, Bill Bunbury, Laurie Connell, Mark Birighitti, Hazel Hawke, Herb Elliott, Paula Taylor, William T. Leighton, Alan Fletcher, Bill Wyllie, Frieda Hughes, Jon Sanders, James Wan, Troye Sivan, Doug Ithier, Samantha Jade, John Young, Harold Boas, James Clement, Allan Fels, Mark Priestley, Mitchell Marsh, Andrew Forrest, David Tarka, Tim Farriss, Jimmy Jack, Jack Simons, Rostyn Griffiths, Michael Usher, Anthony Danze, John Brosnan, Andrew Vlahov, Dino Đulbić, David Oldfield, Nik Mrdja, Jessica Gomes, Frederick William Bell, Jon Farriss, Paul Ritter, Tando Velaphi, Charlene O'brien, David Clark, Martin Livings, Bill Kirby, Harry Butler, Bruce Reid, Kevin Parry, Dave Hughes, Andrew Farriss, Shakir Pichler, Michael Chaney, Robert Juniper, Eco Logika, Walter Padbury, Richard Woldendorp, Jason Petkovic, Liam Hendriks, Selwyn, Sophie Ward, Bob Maumill, Darryn Hill, Rose Porteous, Dean Capobianco, Judi Moylan, Clinton Morgan, John Steffensen, Haylie Ecker, James Harvey, Saritah, B...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=17173785 ... Read more

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Chapters: Australian Computer Programmers, Australian Computer Scientists, Greg Egan, Andrew Tridgell, Andrew Morton, Neil J. Gunther, Mahinda Pathegama, Gernot Heiser, Charles Leonard Hamblin, Rodney Brooks, Jeff Waugh, Jonathan Oxer, Vaughan Pratt, A. Richard Newton, Rick Jelliffe, Pia Waugh, Anthony Towns, Brian Henderson-Sellers, Con Kolivas, Chris Wallace, Paul Voermans, Rusty Russell, John Makepeace Bennett, Adam Kennedy, Martin Dougiamas, Terry Halpin, Peter Bernus, Michael Georgeff, Damian Conway, Tim Hartnell, Richard P. Brent, Alex Fraser, Ross Williams, Allan Bromley, Ori Allon, Zoltan Somogyi, James Turnbull, Brendan Mckay, Carlo Kopp, Kenny Sabir, Lawrie Brown, Mark Delany, Trevor Pearcey, Willy Susilo, Esmond Pitt, Nathan Hurst, Leon Sterling, Sir Piers Lauder, 13th Baronet. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 164. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Neil Gunther, (born 15 August 1950) is a computer information systems researcher best known internationally for developing the open-source performance modeling software Pretty Damn Quick. He has also been cited for his contributions to the theory of large transients in computer systems and packet networks, and his universal law of computational scalability. Gunther is a Senior Member of both the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), as well as a member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), American Physical Society (APS), Computer Measurement Group (CMG) and ACM SIGMETRICS. He is currently focused on developing quantum information system technologies. Gunther is an Australian of German and Scots ancestry, born in Melbourne on 15 August 1950. He attended Preston East Primary School from 1955 to 1956, and Balwyn North Primary School from 1956 until 1962...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12829834 ... Read more

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Chapters: Bob Hawke, Greg Egan, Rolf Harris, Niall Mclaren, Tim Minchin, Trevor Marshall, Kim Beazley, Carmen Lawrence, Shaun Tan, Paul Hasluck, Robert Holmes à Court, Ronald Wilson, H. C. Coombs, Barry Marshall, Geoff Gallop, Shirley Strickland, Rod Eddington, Billy Snedden, Alan Carpenter, Fiona Stanley, Eric Underwood, Ric Charlesworth, John Toohey, Richard Court, Dorothy Hewett, Peter F. Bell, Kim Edward Beazley, John Kinsella, Sally Morgan, Harry C.j. Phillips, Peter Newman, Andrew Long, Peter Durack, Roger Smalley, Philip Bračanin, Allan Fels, Warren Snowdon, Ken Freeman, Margaret Battye, Daryl Williams, Robin Warren, Geoffrey Bolton, Kate Burridge, Mike Fitzpatrick, Ralph Slatyer, Michael Chaney, Sara Macliver, Kenneth Richard Norris, Wayne Martin, Ken Michael, Zarah Garde-Wilson, U. Narayan Bhat, John O. Limb, Barry Hickey, Christine Wheeler, John Courtney, Randolph Stow, Ralph Townsend, Betty Judge, Janet Holmes à Court, Saurabh Narain Singh, Christopher Steytler, C. J. Van Rijsbergen, John A. Hay, Ameer Ali, Julian Ralph Ford, Stanley Rosier, David Foot, Hamdan Mohamad, Peter Van Onselen, John La Nauze, Neville Owen. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 324. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Rolf Harris, CBE, AM (born 30 March 1930), is an Australian/British musician, singer, composer, painter, and television host and personality. Born in Perth, Western Australia, Harris was a champion swimmer before studying art. He moved to England in 1952, where he started to appear on television programmes on which he drew the characters. He also began a musical career initially with the piano accordion. He wrote the famous song Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport, and when performing in Canada he introduced his popular routine Jake the Peg. He often uses unusual instruments in his performances: h...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=157461 ... Read more

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Chapters: Greg Egan, Hugo Weaving, Missy Higgins, Gary Forrester, J. M. Coetzee, Desmond Ford, Percy Grainger, Vanessa Amorosi, Elle Macpherson, Benjamin Speed, Mark Oliphant, Jackie O, Isabel Lucas, Ben Lee, Sophie Monk, Abbie Cornish, Axella Johannesson, Val Plumwood, Radha Mitchell, Cliff Young, Michael Guy Chislett, Pippa Black, Xavier Rudd, Murray Rose, Dave Hughes, Victor Peirce, Chris Ross. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 138. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Melissa "Missy" Morrison Higgins (born 19 August 1983) is an Australian pop singer-songwriter, musician and actor, her No. 1 albums are The Sound of White (2004) and On a Clear Night (2007), and her Top Ten singles are "Scar", "The Special Two", "Steer" and "Where I Stood". From a musical family in Melbourne, she played piano by age six and sang at twelve. While boarding at Geelong Grammar School, she wrote a song for an assignment which was then entered into the national Unearthed radio competition for unsigned artists. Higgins won and signed recording contracts with Eleven and Warner Bros. After taking time off, backpacking in Europe, she recorded her first album The Sound of White, which was released in 2004. The album, and its first single, "Scar" both went to No. 1 on the relevant Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Charts. Its second single, "The Special Two", went to No. 2. Higgins was nominated for five ARIA Music Awards that year and won 'Best Pop Release' for "Scar". In 2005 she was nominated for seven more awards and won five. She won her seventh ARIA in 2007. In 2006, Higgins wrote new material for her second album, and following a US tour she recorded On a Clear Night, which gave her another No. 1 single with "Steer". Higgins has conducted several well received Australian tours and performed ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6996933 ... Read more

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Chapters: Peter Singer, Gough Whitlam, Ben Elton, Greg Egan, Germaine Greer, Percy Grainger, Tim Minchin, Paul Mcdermott, Clive James, Carmen Lawrence, Bob Brown, Phillip Adams, Mark Oliphant, Anna Bligh, Andrew Hansen, Chris Taylor, John Doyle, Bill Hayden, Fred Hollows, John Harsanyi, J. L. Mackie, Andrew Denton, Guy Pearce, Andrew Bartlett, Lyn Allison, Peter Cundall, Andrew Bolt, Alan Carpenter, Frederick Vosper, Montague Miller, Damien Broderick, Joseph Post, Sean Williams, Julian Morrow, Dorothy Hewett, Russell Blackford, David Marr, Man Bites God, Richard Carleton, Cameron Reilly, Kieran Galvin, Padraic Mcguinness, Eva Cox, Josh Thomas, Catherine Deveny, Ian Robinson, Robyn Williams, Jim Jeffries, Noel Counihan, Graham Oppy, Brian Wilshire, Terry Lane, Ian Hunter, Antony Loewenstein, Graeme Samuel, Jill Singer, Sue-Ann Post, Edward Woodward, Dick Gross. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 354. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Edward Gough Whitlam, AC, QC (born 11 July 1916), known as Gough Whitlam (pronounced ), served as the 21st Prime Minister of Australia from 1972 to 1975. He was dismissed as Prime Minister by the Governor-General Sir John Kerr at the climax of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis; he is the only Prime Minister to have his commission terminated in that manner. Whitlam entered Parliament in 1952, representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP). In 1960 he was elected deputy leader of the ALP and in 1967, after party leader Arthur Calwell retired, he assumed the leadership and became Leader of the Opposition. After narrowly losing the 1969 election, Whitlam led Labor to victory at the 1972 election after 23 years of Liberal-Country Party government. In his time in office, Whitlam and his government implemented a large number of new programs and policy chang...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12454 ... Read more