Egan wrote another one that's going to stick with you for a long time because you're just still chewing on little bits of it. The easiest thing for me to talk about is like the craft of it, and she's not telling a clear narrative arc for any of this technology. And yet the way that she doles out details across these like dozen or so stories is really effective and builds a world for you. One Andrew, an idea called word casings at one one. Like for sausages? No, one character uses it to describe almost like a spent bullet casing. She wants words that actually like have effectiveness.
It only took 500-or-so episodes to revisit the world of Egan's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad. We did, of course, have to wait for Egan to write her sequel (sort of) novel. This follow-up to a post-postmodern classic is focused on memories (digital and otherwise) and relationships (virtual and otherwise). It's got "what if the Meta but for everyone's memories" okay??
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