Greg Egan

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Greg Egan
Born 20 August 1961 (1961-08-20) (age 47)
Perth, Western Australia
Occupation Writer, former Programmer
Nationality Australian
Writing period 1990s-present
Genres Science fiction

Greg Egan (born 20 August 1961) is an Australian science fiction author.

Egan specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness. Other themes include genetics, simulated reality, posthumanism, mind transfer, sexuality, artificial intelligence, and the superiority of rational naturalism over religion. He is a Hugo Award winner (and has been shortlisted for the Hugos three other times), and has also won the John W Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel. Some of his earlier short stories feature strong elements of supernatural horror, while due to his more popular science fiction he is known within the genre for his tendency to deal with complex and highly technical material (including inventive new physics and epistemology) in an unapologetically thorough manner.

Egan's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including regular appearances in Interzone and Asimov's Science Fiction.

Egan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Western Australia, and currently lives in Perth. He has recently been active on the issue of refugees' mandatory detention in Australia.

Egan is a "famously reclusive" author.[1]. He does not attend science fiction conventions[2], and does not sign books.

Contents

[edit] Works

[edit] Novels

[edit] Collections

[edit] Short stories

[edit] Stories collected in Axiomatic

  • "The Infinite Assassin"
  • "The Hundred Light-Year Diary"
  • "Eugene"
  • "The Caress"
  • "Blood Sisters"
  • "Axiomatic"
  • "The Safe-Deposit Box"
  • "Seeing"
  • "A Kidnapping"
  • "Learning to Be Me"
  • "The Moat"
  • "The Walk"
  • "The Cutie"
  • "Into Darkness"
  • "Appropriate Love"
  • "The Moral Virologist"
  • "Closer"
  • "Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies"'

[edit] Stories collected in Luminous

  • "Chaff"
  • "Mitochondrial Eve"
  • "Luminous"
  • "Mister Volition"
  • "Cocoon"
  • "Transition Dreams"
  • "Silver Fire"
  • "Reasons to Be Cheerful"
  • "Our Lady of Chernobyl"
  • "The Planck Dive"

[edit] Stories collected in Dark Integers and Other Stories

[edit] Other stories

[edit] Awards

Egan was nominated for the 2000 Ditmar Award for best novel with Teranesia. He declined the award.

[edit] Usenet Newsgroups

Egan occasionally contributes posts to a variety of (mostly scientific and/or technical) Usenet newsgroups, using his own name. These include: sci.physics.research; sci.math; comp.graphics.algorithms; comp.sys.laptops; comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc; microsoft.public.windowsxp.accessibility; aus.sf; rec.arts.movies.current-films; plus a few others.

From December 1994 to September 1999 he contributed regularly to the group rec.arts.sf.written, where he engaged in dialogue with his readers about his work, and science fiction in general.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Science Fiction Book Club
  2. ^ Interviews
  3. ^ "Orphanogenesis" became the opening chapter of the novel Diaspora.
  4. ^ Wang refers to the mathematician Hao Wang – the carpets are living embodiments of Wang tiles. This story, minorly reworked, became a section of the novel Diaspora.
  5. ^ "Dust" became the opening chapter of the novel Permutation City [1]
  6. ^ Singleton introduced the concept of the Qusp, which was later used in the novel Schild's Ladder.

[edit] External links

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NAME Egan, Greg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Australian science fiction writer and former computer programmer
DATE OF BIRTH 20 August 1961 (1961-08-20) (age 47)
PLACE OF BIRTH Perth, Western Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
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