The Orgone Accumulator

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Greg Egan is secretly from the future and he writes about it. He also writes about other futures, clearly to distract from his true identity.

Universes:

• Eganverse: The universe with Qusps, Exoselves and Mediators. Humans are the only known sapient species.
  • Permutation City Set near-future (~2050). Exoself namedrop.
  • Singleton Set shortly after Permutation City. Qusp origins.
  • Oracle Set after Singleton, semantically, but involves time-travel to before Permutation City, where it buds off into a different universe by necessity.
  • Schild's Ladder Set in ~23 000. Whole nine yards.
• Amalgamverse: There are several sapient species. The Aloof inhabit the galaxy's Bulge and refuse all communication. The Amalgam the rest of the galaxy, forming a patchwork of these species. It is quite clear that this is not an Eganverse future chiefly because the inventor (Ndoli) of their Qusp-equivalent (the jewel) does not coincide with the Eganverse one.
  • Learning To Be Me references the Ndoli jewel (first of the lot, chronologically)
  • Closer references the Ndoli jewel (second of the lot, chronologically)
  • Then, from this point on, chronology is uncertain:
  • Incandescence
  • Riding The Crocodile
  • Border Guards references the Ndoli jewel
• Distressverse: Greenhouse refugees, DNA resequencing, “El Nido”.
  • Distress
  • The Moat
  • Chaff
• Diasporaverse: Polises are a thing.
  • Diaspora Set around the year 3 000 at the beginning of the book.
  • The Planck Dive
• ???
  • Quarantine Quarantining occurs in 2034. Priming is a thing.
  • Caress Set in 2050. Priming is a thing, but there is no mention of a quarantine like in Quarantine… and it's a pretty big deal, so!