(Drivebycuriosity) - Greg Egan belongs to the most ambitious contemporary science fiction writers. Novels & short stories by the Australian author are all based on sciences - real hard science fiction. I just finished his book "Quarantine", written in first person (260 pages amazon).
The plot is set on a world where the night sky is dark because all stars (but not our sun and the planets of our sun system) had disappeared. The narrator, a former cop who works now as a private investigator, got the order to find a highly mentally disabled woman who had suddenly disappeared from an intensely guarded mental institution (this is a spoiler free blog). Soon the plot dives deep into quantum physics, advanced neurosciences and probability theory - too deep for me, but I browsed through the end. Reading the novel is a real challenge, but also fascinating. Egan plays with a lot of sophisticated scientific ideas, like string & multiverse theories.
In the moment of writing the Kindle version costs just $2.99.
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