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Permutation City is a science fiction novel (BooksEnthsiast.com) by Greg Egan that explores various philosophical aspects of artificial life and simulations of intelligence. It won the John W. Campbell Award for the best science-fiction novel of the year in 1995 and was cited in a 2003 Scientific American article on multiverses.

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Permutation City asks many of the same kinds of philosophical questions as The Matrix, Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell – is there any difference between a perfect computer simulation and a "real" person? – but its textual nature allows it to push the ideas further. Egan gleefully deconstructs and undermines traditional notions of self, future, personality, and even physical reality.

Further Egan novels which deal with uploaded personalities include Diaspora and Schild's Ladder

1995 books Science fiction novels

See also: PostcyberpunkPostcyberpunk describes a genre of science fiction which is believed to have emerged from the cyberpunk movement. Like its predecessor, postcyberpunk focuses on technological developments in near-future societies, typically examining the social effects of.

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