Description: After the invention of a method for sending messages back in time, history of the future becomes common knowledge, and every person knows their own fate. S 1995 collection of short science fiction stories by Greg Egan. The stories all delve into different aspects of self and identity. According to amazon.co.uk, in the Axiomatic stories: "Egan delivers shocking body-blows to received ideas in thought-experiment stories that like Jorge Luis Borges's philosophical squibs are booby-trapped with terrible truths and paradoxes." The Guardian describes it as "[w]onderful mind-expanding stuff, and well-written too."