The sequel was published in the October/November 2007 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction.Ĭategory:Short story collections by Greg Egan Category:1998 short story collections The title story has since seen a sequel entitled Dark Integers. Our Lady Of Chernobyl - A man is hired to find a radioactive religious icon.With it removed, he becomes despondent, and undergoes a new and extensive treatment eventually, with a form of brain network, to try to get back to a more useful life many years later. Reasons To Be Cheerful - A boy discovers he has a serious brain tumour, which was causing him to be amazingly happy.Using a powerful virtual computer made of light beams (Luminous), they are able to map and shape the boundary between the near-side and far-side mathematics, leading to a showdown with real consequences in the physical universe. Luminous - A pair of researchers find a defect in mathematics, where an assertion (X) leads to a contradictory assertion (not X) after a long but finite series of steps.Mitochondrial Eve - An organisation is trying to trace a common maternal ancestor for recent humanity.Chaff - An agent is sent to kill a geneticist who is working in a drug lord-controlled stronghold in the jungles of Colombia, and working on important brain-altering research. Luminous contains the following short stories. Luminous is a collection of short science fiction stories by Greg Egan.
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