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Greg Egan


3-adica

3-adica

3-adica Universe

Greg Egan

Asimov's Readers' Award Finalist Novella

In a future where massive online multiplayer videogame characters are sentient composites of real people, one character decides they’ve had enough of being used for worldbuilding scenery, and makes plans to use a flaw in the operating system to escape to a safe place that's only rumored to exist.

This story originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, September-October 2018. The story is included in the collection The Best of Greg Egan (2019).

Read this story for free at Asimov's.

Instantiation

Instantiation

3-adica Universe

Greg Egan

The AIs who escaped from Sludgenet's control in 3-Adica now face a different threat; Sludgenet is going out of business, and they're utterly dependent on its hardware resources.

This story originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, March-April 2019. The story is included in the collection The Best of Greg Egan (2019).

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