Orthogonal Trilogy

What this note is

This is a series hub for Greg Egan's Orthogonal trilogy. It is not a source-backed single-book note, and it should not carry chapter-by-chapter analysis. Use the represented volume notes for close reading and use Orthogonal Trilogy for the broader series index.

Volume notes

Missing or not yet represented

The Eternal Flame

Source status

The hub has no single extracted source because the trilogy is represented at the volume level. The two linked volume notes have their own extracted texts and support chapter-level work. The missing second volume should receive its own source-backed note before the series can be treated as fully represented.

How to use this note

Use this page to move between the Orthogonal volume notes and the vault's science-fiction governance layer. Do not add chapter summaries here. Add chapter-level analysis to the linked volume notes when their source text supports it.

Series-level patterns

The represented volumes make the trilogy useful for comparing how physical substrate constrains political imagination. The Clockwork Rocket builds science, labor, reproductive order, and the Peerless project from unfamiliar optics and biology; The Arrows of Time turns those physical rules into problems of memory, foreknowledge, return, and institutional choice. The hub-level comparison therefore belongs with Ecological Constraint, Technological Change, Knowledge Preservation, and Speculative Governance.