Luminous is a collection of short science fiction stories by Greg Egan first published in 1998 by Millenium.

Contents

Luminous contains the following short stories:

Critical reception

Writing in Vector Brian Stableford noted: "Egan's second story-collection, Luminous, is markedly better than his first. Axiomatic, and warrants comparison with such classic collections of Contes philosophiques as Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths and Primo Levi's The Sixth Day...This is the science fiction book of the year, and it should be on every sf lover's shelf...For good or ill, this is the shape of things to come." In SF Commentary Bruce Gillespie noted: "Greg Egan has achieved an evenness of texture and consistency of accomplishment in these stories that makes it difficult to remember them separately. They so nearly add up to one Eganworld that it’s hard to differentiate between their viewpoints. I’ve given four stars to most of them, and particularly liked 'Transition Dreams', 'Silver Fire', 'Chaff', and "The Planck Dive"."