About 6 months ago I read Permutation City by Greg Egan. When I put it down, I was glad to be done with it. It wasn’t a gripping read, so despite being relatively moderate length (350 small trade paperback pages), it took me awhile to muscle through it. I don’t usually write reviews on this blog about books I didn’t enjoy much (I don’t see the value in saying negative things publicly about others’ work), so I didn’t blog about it. But this book has really stuck in my mind, ...