Distress

by Greg Egan
In the year 2055, a disease called “Distress” affects millions, and when investigative reporter Andrew Worth travels to the virtual planet of Stateless to document a gathering of physicists, his focus, Violet Mosala, begins to receive death threats, and he discovers that “Distress” is linked to the conference and to the end of the world. Reprint.

Publication date
  • February 1, 1998