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Wang's Carpets
| Author: | Greg Egan |
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Tor, 1995 |
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| Book Type: | Novelette |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Far in the distant, post-human future, the Cater-Zimmermann community set out to refute the theory that the universe is created exclusively for mankind by cloning themselves a thousand times over and sending each copy to a different star within the galaxy. One of the copies of Cater-Zimmermann, Paolo Venetti, arrives at Orpheus; a water-world inhabited by floating mats that perform as a Turing machine
This short story originally appeared in the anthology New Legends (1995), edited by Greg Bear and Martin H. Greenberg. It can also be found in the anthologies:
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection (1996), edited by Gardner Dozois
- Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction (1999), edited by David G. Hartwell and Damien Broderick
- Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons (2000), edited by Gardner Dozois
- The Hard SF Renaissance (2002), edited by Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell
- Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (2005), edited by Gardner Dozois
- The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction (2006), edited by Mike Ashley
The story was later incorporated in the novel Diaspora (1997).
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