first book of the year down, (I think via @leigh somewhere?): “Axiomatic,” a collection of Greg Egan’s short stories that appeared in various science fiction magazines (mostly Interzone and Asimov’s) between 1989 and 1992.
Great late 80s hard SF shorts
I don’t do star reviews, but, folks, they’re good stories
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156783.Axiomatic
aside: a characters is mentioned to have received their advanced degree in 2023, which I’m sure felt reasonably far out at the time.
