Bookpost 22

IndexDiaspora, Greg EganGreg Egan loves Big Ideas and theoretical physics and wants to tell everyone about it. He’s very much off doing his own thing with this book, and your response will be according to how willing you are to listen to a man describe theoretical physics.This is a positive, on the whole. Egan’s a solid prose stylist and very good with pacing; the book flows well and is an easy breezy read if you let the physics just kinda wash over you. Short chapters and frequent section breaks means you won’t be stuck with a single topic for long, which makes the frequent conversations devoted to discussing the Conundrum du Jour a lot easier to handle. Push through a few pages more and you’ll get a reset and some space to catch your breath, or at least move on to a different topic. Some of the character moments, especially early on, are very well crafted.I felt like the plot was lost around the time they found Swift 2/3 or so through the book), and towards the end my response was…