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Sleep and the Soul is a collection of ten science-fiction short stories by Australian writer Greg Egan, published in 2023.

Contents

• You and Whose Army? (2020)
• This Is Not the Way Home (2019)
• Zeitgeber (2019)
• Crisis Actors (2022)
• Sleep and the Soul (2021)
• After Zero (2022)
• Dream Factory (2022)
• Light Up the Clouds (2021)
• Night Running (2023)
• Solidity (2022)

Reception

Reviews

Russell Letson writes in the Locus Magazine, to be "struck by how consistent Egan has been in his ethical and social concerns; by his relentless pursuit of philosophical questions; by the sometimes daunting sophistication of his mathematical, topological, and cosmological speculations; and by the surprising ways he turns and re-turns his imagination to those questions. Even after seven volumes of short work (and more than a dozen novels and novellas) these variations on themes never get old."

Letson further writes about the title story in the Locus Magazine, that it is "an intriguing piece presented as an alternate history where the Jonbar point is a biological change, not a historical one." He adds that "Egan’s logical working out of the consequences of his central idea is fascinating, and the story is involving."

Awards

"This is Not the Way Home" was nominated for the Japanese Seiun Award in 2021. "Light Up the Clouds" reached the 4th place in Asimov's Readers Poll in 2022. "Solidty" reached the 8th place in the Locus Award for Best Novelette in 2023 and the 5th place in Asimov's Reader Poll in 2023 and won the Japanese Seiun Award in 2024.

References

1. "Bibliography". 2024-04-09. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
2. "Summary Bibliography: Greg Egan". Retrieved 2024-04-19.
3. Egan, Greg (1 October 2020). "You and Whose Army?". Clarkesworld Magazine, issue 169, October 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
4. Egan, Greg (25 September 2019). "Zeitgeber". Tor.com. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
5. Horton, Rich (2021-12-02). "Rich Horton Reviews Short Fiction: Asimov's, Uncanny, and On Spec". locusmag.com. Retrieved 2024-06-07.
6. "星雲賞受賞作・参考候補作一覧" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-04-09.
7. ^ "Greg Egan Awards Summary". 2023-10-15. Retrieved 2024-04-09.
8. ^ "sfadb : Asimovs Reader Poll All Nominees". www.sfadb.com. Retrieved 2024-09-13.
9. "Locus Awards 2023". Retrieved 2024-07-29.

External links

• Sleep and the Soul title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

• Short story collections by Greg Egan
• 2023 short story collections