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