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Teranesia by Greg Egan

I've always wanted to read Permutation City, and was intrigued by Egan being a mathematician, an edgy recluse and write SF. I saw this in a bookshop, and it was cheap, so I bought it.

What a fucking drag and a piece of shit. The main character is Indian and gay, whilst the author is a white Australian heterosexual. How can you possibly write that, and why? I'm cca 120 pages in (out of cca 300) but I just dropped it, can't stand it anymore. He's a shitty writer, treats a reader like a retard, explains random shit everyone understands, is a smug MUH SCIENCE idiot. The story is boring, the atmosphere and feel is nonexistent, characters are flat and shit. Now I'm sorry that I've wasted some time with it, but more than that, I'm sorry I picked it up before Permutation City, because I now of course don't want to but it since Egan is a moron.

Anyone here read both mayhaps?