In a history textbook some years ahead, I won’t be surprised if the chapter “The twentieth Century” is subsequent to a subtilted “The Silicon Age”. But as history is to textbox; time is to literature.

Sci-Fi literature, as Hayes describes in her reading of Egan’s trilogy, a genre of future dystopian or utopian worlds, can only arise from a post enlighten, industrialization, mechanization era. That is, the view of a hyper-siliconized world in literature is derived from a reflection of our own familiar techno-saturated landscape.

The Posthuman as Hayes describes, under the rule of The Computation Regime, points to the proximity of Egan’s sci-fi plot lines, and our contemporary world. Thus, Egan’s literature is more than allegory; it’s metaphoric intent severs the ties between the reader and his or her culture, to scrutinized the obscurity, yet familarity of a posthuman protagonist. Through these echoes does the suspension of one’s disbelief become less and less suspended, while the plot becomes more and more believable.