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''Luminous'' is a collection of short science fiction stories by Greg Egan. ''Luminous'' contains the following short stories. *''Chaff'' — An agent is sent to kill a geneticist who is working in a drug lord-controlled stronghold in the jungles of Colombia, and working on important brain-altering research. *''Mitochondrial Eve'' — An organisation is trying to trace a common maternal ancestor for recent humanity. *''Luminous'' — A pair of researchers find a defect in mathematics, where an assertion (X) leads to a contradictory assertion (not X) after a long but finite series of steps. Using a powerful virtual computer made of light beams (Luminous), they are able to map and shape the boundary between the near-side and far-side mathematics, leading to a showdown with real consequences in the physical universe. *''Mister Volition'' *''Cocoon'' *''Transition Dreams'' *''Silver Fire'' *''Reasons To Be Cheerful'' — A boy discovers he has a serious brain tumour, which was causing him to be amazingly happy. With it removed, he becomes despondent, and undergoes a new and extensive treatment eventually, with a form of brain network, to try to get back to a more useful life many years later. *''Our Lady Of Chernobyl'' — A man is hired to find a radioactive religious icon. The search turns deadly. *''The Planck Dive'' ISBN 1-85798-573-7 The title story has since seen a sequel entitled ''Dark Integers''. The sequel was published in the October/November 2007 issue of ''Asimov's Science Fiction''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Luminous (story collection)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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