An Unusual Angle
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An Unusual Angle (1983) was the debut novel by Australian science fiction writer Greg Egan by Norstrilia Press.[1]
Synopsis
The novel follows a high school boy who makes movies inside his head using a bio-mechanical camera, one that he has grown. He is also able to send out other "viewpoints", controlled with his "psi" powers, of which he has more power than anyone else he's ever met. Most of the book concerns the boy trying to get his films out of his head, but no brain surgeon will believe him.
Critical reception
Writing in The MT Void Evelyn C. Leeper commented: "The plot of this book is not like Egan's later work, but the wealth of ideas–and many of the same ideas–that characterize his later work is. There is a section on how quantum mechanics restored the concept of free will. The protagonist sends out "viewpoints"–essentially non-material copies of himself–to perform varioustasks. The protagonist is (literally) making films in his head, which conjures up a vision of universes within an individual mind, which in turn conjures up the image of layers of universes. (And yes, I mean literally–the protagonist claims to have an actual little film lab in there!)"[2]
References
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- An Unusual Angle (1983)
- Quarantine (1992)
- Permutation City (1994)
- Distress (1995)
- Diaspora (1997)
- Teranesia (1999)
- Schild's Ladder (2002)
- Incandescence (2008)
- Zendegi (2010)
- Dichronauts (2017)
- Perihelion Summer (2019)
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- Axiomatic (1995)
- Luminous (1998)
- Dark Integers and Other Stories (2008)
- Crystal Nights and Other Stories (2009)
- Oceanic (2009)
- The Best of Greg Egan (2019)
- Instantiation (2020)
- Sleep and the Soul (2023)
- Phoresis and Other Journeys (2023)
- "Neighbourhood Watch" (1987)
- "The Cutie" (1989)
- "The Moral Virologist" (1990)
- "Axiomatic" (1990)
- "The Moat" (1990)
- "Eugene" (1990)
- "Learning to Be Me" (1990)
- "The Safe-Deposit Box" (1990)
- "Appropriate Love" (1991)
- "Into Darkness" (1992)
- "The Hundred Light-Year Diary" (1992)
- "Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies" (1992)
- "The Walk" (1992)
- "Transition Dreams" (1993)
- "Chaff" (1993)
- "Mitochondrial Eve" (1995)
- "A Kidnapping" (1995)
- "Wang's Carpets" (1995)
- "Luminous" (1995)
- "TAP" (1995)
- "Silver Fire" (1995)
- "Reasons to Be Cheerful" (1997)
- "The Planck Dive" (1998)
- "Oceanic" (1998)
- "Border Guards" (1999)
- "Singleton" (2002)
- "Riding the Crocodile" (2005)
- "Glory" (2007)
- "Induction" (2007)
- "Dark Integers" (2007)
- "Lost Continent" (2008)
- "Crystal Nights" (2008)
- "Zero for Conduct" (2013)
- "Didicosm" (2023)
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