Axiomatic
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Axiomatic
Greg Egan
6 people recommended it in 6 threads, 2015–2025.
What people on Hacker News said
These books really challenge your thinking or force you to think hard and/or see things through another lens.
I'm working on Axiomatic, which is a collection of his short stories.
I highly recommend his short story collection Axiomatic, where each story explores a different idea in brief.
It's still hard sci-fi but it's chunked smaller so if you're less of a hard sci-fi fan you can still find it interesting.
Axiomatic has some great ones too with concepts that really stuck with me.
Greg Egan’s Axiomatic anthology of short stories was the best I read in recent years.
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