While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. The question then becomes: Is this what she really wants? Is this what we really want?įrom the brilliant mind of Greg Egan, Permutation City, first published in 1994, comes a world of wonder that makes you ask if you are you, or is the Copy of you the real you? You will never be your normal flesh-and-blood life again.

There is, however, one catch: you can no longer terminate, bail out, and remove yourself. Paul makes Maria an offer to design and drop a seed into the Autoverse that will allow her to indulge in her obsession. Permutation City is a science fiction novel that takes place in the middle of the 21st century. She spends every waking minute with the cellular automaton known as the Autoverse, a world that lives by the mathematical laws of physics.” You also have Maria Deluca, who is nothing but an Autoverse addict. For Paul Durham, he keeps making Copies of himself, but the issue is that his Copies keep changing their minds and shutting themselves down. You have been digitized, scanned, and downloaded into a virtual reality program.

Immortality is a real thing, just not the thing you’d expect. You have Eternal Life, the power to live forever. What happens when your digital self overpowers your physical self?Ī life in Permutation City is unlike any life to which you’re accustomed.

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