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8 14 y separately published work icon Permutation City Greg Egan , ( trans. Jurgen Martin et. al. )agent with title Cybercity : Science-fiction-Roman ) Bergisch Gladbach : Bastei Lübbe , 1995 Z455855 1994 single work novel science fiction (taught in 2 units) 'In Permutation City Egan has said that his main goal was "to take the idea of conscious software - whether it's some kind of scanned human duplicate, or some AI created from scratch - and push it to its logical conclusion'." The story involves human identities being 'loaded into computer memory banks where they become virtual people' (Colin Steele, SF Commentary No 77, p.53).
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