It is up to the Orphan and a group of refugees to find the knowledge that will save them all-a search that will lead them on a quantum adventure to a higher dimension beyond the macrocosmos. Diaspora is the story of Yatima a polis being created from random mutations of the Konishi polis base mind seed and of humankind, Of an astrophysical accident that spurs the thousandfold cloning of the polises. When an unforeseen disaster ravages the fleshers, it awakens the polises to the possibility of their own extinction from bizarre astrophysical processes that seemingly violate fundamental laws of nature. And then there is the Orphan, a genderless digital being grown from a mind seed. A few holdouts stubbornly remain fleshers struggling to shape an antiquated existence in the muck and jungle of Earth. Others have opted for disposable, renewable robotic bodies that remain in contact with the physical world. Most people have chosen immortality, joining the polises to become conscious software. The "world" has evolved into a vast network of probes, satellites, and servers knitting the solar system into one scape from the outer planets to the sun. The boldest and most wildly speculative writer of our time, Greg Egan has envisioned a quantum Brave New World-a masterful saga of a time when not only human life, but fleshly reality itself, will be nothing but a memory.
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