Phoresis And Other Journeys Contains Three Novellas From Hugo Award-winning Author Greg Egan. • “the Four Thousand, The Eight Hundred”: Civil War In An Asteroid Colony Sees Refugees Fleeing, By Any Means Possible. • “dispersion”: A World Where All Life Is Divided Into Six Cyclically Invisible And Intangible Groups Faces A Terrifying New Disease. • “phoresis”: The Inhabitants Of A Double Planet Embark On An Epic, Multi-generational Project To Cross Between The Twin Worlds.