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The Nearest

By Greg Egan
The Nearest by Greg Egan digital book - Fable

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When a detective, a new mother, is assigned to the case of a horrific triple murder, it appears to be a self-contained domestic tragedy, a terrible event but something that doesn’t affect the rest of the community. But it slowly becomes clear that something much darker may be at play, something that spreads out from the scene of the crime to corrode the closest relationships of everyone it touches, in Greg Egan's The Nearest, a Tor.com Original.

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6 Reviews

3.5
“Not my favorite Greg Egan story but I still enjoyed it well enough!”
“Pretty good short story on Tor.com I ended up figuring this one out, which surprised me! lol You can read it for yourself here https://www.tor.com/2018/07/19/the-nearest-greg-egan/”

About Greg Egan

Greg Egan published his first story in 1983, and followed it with more than a dozen novels, several short story collections, and more than numorous short stories. During the early 1990s Egan published a body of short fiction – mostly hard science fiction focused on mathematical and quantum ontological themes – that established him as one of the most important writers working in the field. His work has won the Hugo, John W Campbell Memorial, Locus, Aurealis, Ditmar, and Seiun awards. His novel, Dichronauts, is the first installment of a new science fiction universe.

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