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Do you recommend reading this trilogy in any particular order? I noticed that Permutation City was written before Diaspora.
by brogrammer90 11y ago
Do you recommend reading this trilogy in any particular order? I noticed that Permutation City was written before Diaspora.
- JonnieCache 11y agoIf you read them in the order they were written, you will also be reading them in chronological order of their setting, if that makes sense. They are specifically not set in the same universe, but they portray different stages of posthuman development, so I think that would be a good way to read them. You can see the development of egan's own thinking along the way. Also this is ordering by increasing weirdness/hardness of ideas, which is probably a good idea too. That being said, I read disapora first, then permutation city, and that was fine.