Moar book review

Greg Egan: "Dark Integers and Other Stories" (Amazon seem to be rather short of copies, I bought mine directly from http://www.subterraneanpress.com)
Stories:
* "Luminous"
* "Riding the Crocodile"
* "Dark Integers"
* "Glory"
* "Oceanic" (Winner of the Hugo Award)
(yeah, it's pretty short)

Luminous is obviously reprinted here from the collection of the same name; Dark Integers is a direct sequel, but is (IMO) no *more* confusing. But still, yeah, hard SF where the 'S' is pure maths; tends to be confusing, but that's why we love it (or, er, something).

Riding the Crocodile and Glory are both in the same universe as Incandescence; but it's OK, neither is a lecture on GR posing as a novel (I think it's a pretty *good* explanation of GR mind, just not a very good novel...) and both are fairly interesting.

Oceanic is a sideways look at religion, kinda, maybe.

I like all these stories, but then I like basically all Egan's short stories. Unless I'm remembering wrongly they are all available online, so there's no actual need to, er, buy the book. But it's a nice book, and I like reading from paper more than I like reading on a computer screen (sometimes, I mean, I use a computer all day at work). Also I <3 Greg Egan and think he should have monies.

(no you can't have any more details, because SPOILER, I mean, these are short stories... there's not all that much there to start with).