Sleep and the Soul
By Greg Egan
- Release Date: 2023-05-01
- Genre: Sci-Fi Short Stories
Description
Sleep and the Soul contains ten stories from Hugo Award-winning author Greg Egan.
• “You and Whose Army?”
• “This Is Not the Way Home”
• “Zeitgeber”
• “Crisis Actors”
• “Sleep and the Soul”
• “After Zero”
• “Dream Factory”
• “Light Up the Clouds”
• “Night Running”
• “Solidity”
Reviews
Collection of Recent Short Fiction by Greg Egan
4By Prairie_Dog“Sleep and the Soul” is the newly released anthology by Greg Egan, and it contains a collection of his recently published short fiction. While most of it seems to be clearly science fiction, there are some stories one would have to classify as speculative fiction. One of these is the titular “Sleep and the Soul” which I would classify as a type of alternative world historical fiction. In this world, people do not normally sleep or loose consciousness. I also have a hard time finding a scientific basis for the phase shifting in the story “Solidity” although it might have one that escapes me. These stories are all explorations of the “what if” question, and are very readable. Some will be engage the reader more than others, but that’s the nature of an anthology. Mr. Egan is always author that produces quality content, and this collection is no exception. I would also point out that this collection is very fairly priced in e-book format.
