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Distress
A Novel by
Greg Egan

HarperPaperbacks

This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogues are products of the author's
imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons,
living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright (c) 1995 by Greg Egan
ISBN: 0-06-105264-7
Printed in the United States of America First HarperPrism printing: May 1997 Designed by Lisa
Pifher
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Egan, Greg, 1961-
Distress/Greg Egan.
p. cm. ISBN 0-06-105264-7 I. Title. PR9619.3.E35D57 1997
823-DC21 96-54709 CIP
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Thanks to Caroline Oakley, Deborah Beale, Anthony Cheetham, Peter Robinson, Lucy Blackburn,
Annabelle Ager, and Claudia Schaffer.


It is not true that the map of freedom will be complete
with the erasure of the last invidious border when it remains for us to chart the attractors of
thunder
and delineate the arrhythmias of drought to reveal the molecular dialects of forest and savanna
as rich as a thousand human tongues and to comprehend the deepest history of our passions
ancient beyond mythology's reach
So I declare that no corporation holds a monopoly on numbers
no patent can encompass zero and one
no nation has sovereignty over adenine and guanine
no empire rules the quantum waves
And there must be room for all at the celebration of
understanding
for there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold imposed by force, resisted or escaped.

From Technoliberation by Muteba Kazadi, 2019


Part One

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