Axiomatic

Axiomatic is a 1995 collection of short science fiction stories by Greg Egan.

Axiomatic contains the following short stories.

• The Infinite Assassin
• The Hundred-Light-Year-Diary
• Eugene
• The Caress
• Blood Sisters
• Axiomatic
• The Safe-Deposit Box
• Seeing
• A Kidnapping
• Learning To Be Me
• The Moat
• The Walk
• The Cutie
• Into Darkness
• Appropriate Love
• The Moral Virologist
• Closer
• Unsuitable Orbits In The Space Of Lies

The stories are difficult to summarize, and an amazon.co.uk review explains part of the reason why: "Egan delivers shocking body-blows to received ideas in thought-experiment stories that like Jorge Luis Borges's philosophical squibs are booby-trapped with terrible truths and paradoxes." The Guardian sums it up more neatly: "Wonderful mind-expanding stuff, and well-written too."

ISBN 0752816500