{"id":216602,"date":"2025-06-25T17:05:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T22:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/the-minds-that-left-reality-diaspora"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:05:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T22:05:23","slug":"the-minds-that-left-reality-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/the-minds-that-left-reality-diaspora","title":{"rendered":"The Minds That Left Reality | Diaspora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yYwqy4bzHG4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Greg Egan\u2019s Diaspora is one of the most ambitious and mind-bending science fiction novels ever published. It came out in 1997 and originally started as a short story called \u201cWang\u2019s Carpets.\u201d That story ended up as a chapter in the novel. Diaspora is: dense, smart, and way ahead of its time.<br \/> This is hard science fiction to the core. Egan invents entire new branches of physics. He reimagines life, consciousness, time, space \u2014 even what it means to be human. The book doesn\u2019t ease you in. There\u2019s a glossary, invented physics theories like Kozuch Theory, and characters that don\u2019t even have genders. But if you stick with it, what you get isn\u2019t just a story, it\u2019s a look at what the future might actually become.<br \/> By the year 2,975, humanity isn\u2019t one species anymore. It\u2019s split into three groups: Fleshers: The biological humans, including the \u201cstatics\u201d (unchanged baseline humans) and all sorts of heavily modified versions \u2014 underwater people, gene-hacked thinkers, even \u201cdream apes\u201d who gave up speech to live closer to nature. Gleisners: AIs in robotic bodies that live in space. They care about the physical world and experience time like regular humans. They\u2019re kind of old-school \u2014 still sending ships to the stars, trying to build things in real space. 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It came out in 1997 and originally started as a short story called \u201cWang\u2019s Carpets.\u201d That story ended up as a chapter in the novel. Diaspora is: dense, smart, and way ahead of its time. 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