In the 30th century, few humans remain on Earth. Most have downloaded themselves into robot bodies or solar-system-spanning virtual realities, escaping death—or so they believe, until the collision of nearby neutron stars threatens life in every form.

Diaspora

, written by Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Greg Egan, transcends millennia and universes in the tradition of Poul Anderson’s

Tau Zero

, Bruce Sterling’s

Schismatrix Plus

, Camille Flammarion’s

Omega

, and Olaf Stapledon’s

Last and First Men

.

Diaspora

is packed with mind-bending ideas extrapolated from cutting-edge cosmology, physics, and consciousness theory to create an astonishing hard-SF novel inhabited by very strange yet always believable characters.

Diaspora

is why people read SF.

—

Cynthia Ward