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    Schild's LadderNovel

    Greg Egan · standalone novel · 2002

    About technological singularity, set in deep space.

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    series · 5 books · 1978

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    XeeleeSeries

    series · 89 books · 1987

    Science fiction and hard science fiction, about aliens, set in far future and space.

    “The Xeelee are described as symbiotic entities composed of spacetime defects, Bose–Einstein condensates, and baryonic matter.”

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    Greg Egan · standalone novel · 1997

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    A Meeting with MedusaSeries

    series · 2 books · 1971

    Reflective in tone, about immortality, set in outer planets & moons and other star systems.

    “Arthur C. Clarke's A Meeting with Medusa follows an astronaut, badly injured in an earlier disaster, on a solo balloon expedition into Jupiter's atmosphere, where he encounters vast floating lifeforms unlike anything previously catalogued.”

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