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Via Night Shade Books: John Scalzi has a guest post by Greg Egan discussing his new novel Incandescence.

So for us, astronomy was crucial even to reach as far as Newton, and postulating Einstein’s theory — let alone validating it to high precision, with atomic clocks on satellites and observations of pulsar orbits — depended on a wealth of other ideas and technologies.

How, then, could my alien civilization possibly reach the same conceptual heights, when they were armed with none of these apparent prerequisites?

Via SFScope: Night Shade Books has published Walter Jon Williams’ Implied Spaces, with bonus downloads. Also new in their catalog is Greg Egan’s Incandescence.

Via del.icio.us scifi: Greg Egan’s story “Oceanic” is available at his web site. The fine print: Copyright © Greg Egan, 1998. All rights reserved. First published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, August 1998.