Permutation City May 2026

Permutation City (1994) Author: Greg Egan Genre: Hard SF / Post-Cyberpunk The Premise: Life as a Copy

The story follows , a man obsessed with achieving true, eternal immortality for these Copies, who are otherwise doomed to die when their host computer hardware inevitably fails. Core Concept: The "Dust Hypothesis" Permutation City

Permutation City is a deep dive into existential, post-humanist questions, ultimately questioning whether a copy is truly "alive" or merely a functional, haunted simulation. Permutation City (1994) Author: Greg Egan Genre: Hard

Permutation City is available in audible format and is a 1994 John W. Campbell Award winner . If you'd like, I can: the three main plot lines Explain the Dust Theory in simpler terms Campbell Award winner

Durham launches a virtual world built on the "Autoverse," a system allowing for infinite, self-replicating computational nodes, promising infinite life to its inhabitants.