While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. The orphan Yatima, a digital being grown from a mind seed, joins a group of citizens and flesher refugees in a search for the knowledge that will guarantee their safety?a search that puts them on the trail of the ancient and elusive Transmuters, who have the power to reshape subatomic particles, and to cross into the macrocosmos, where the universe we know is nothing but a speck in the higher-dimensional vacuum.

Many of these have left the solar system forever in fusion-drive starships.Īnd there are the holdouts: the fleshers left behind in the muck and jungle of Earth?some devolved into dream apes, others cavorting in the seas or the air?while the statics and bridgers try to shape out a roughly human destiny.īut the complacency of the citizens is shattered when an unforeseen disaster ravages the fleshers and reveals the possibility that the polises themselves might be at risk from bizarre astrophysical processes that seem to violate fundamental laws of nature. Others opted for gleisners: disposable, renewable robotic bodies that remain in contact with the physical world of force and friction. Most chose immortality, joining the polises to become conscious software. Since the Introdus in the twenty-first century, humanity has reconfigured itself drastically. 'Science fiction with an emphasis on science.'?New York Times Book Review ?Greg Egan is perhaps the most important SF writer in the world.'?Science Fiction Weekly 'One of the very best '?Locus. A quantum Brave New World from the boldest and most wildly speculative writer of his generation. Diaspora by Greg Egan 4.13 Rating details 8,351 ratings 720 reviews By the end of the 30th century humanity has the capability to travel the universe, to journey beyond earth and beyond the confines of the vulnerable human frame.

Diaspora by greg egan