Permutation City - Softcover

The story of a man with a vision - immortality : for those who can afford it is found in cyberspace. Permutation city is the tale of a man with a vision - how to create immortality - and how that vision becomes something way beyond his control. Encompassing the lives and struggles of an artificial life junkie desperate to save her dying mother, a billionaire banker scarred by a terrible crime, the lovers for whom, in their timeless virtual world, love is not enough - and much more - Permutation city is filled with the sense of wonder.

Born in Perth in 1961, Greg Egan works as a fixed-contract computer programmer in Perth, which allows him space in between jobs to write. His short stories regularly appear in Interzone and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, and according to Gardner Dozois, he is `in the running for the title of "Hottest New Writer" of the '90s'.