Greg Egan

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Greg Egan (August 20, 1961, Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian computer programmer and 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, mind transfer, sexuality, artificial intelligence, and the superiority of rational materialism 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.

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 is something of a recluse, and has not attended a convention or had any other public apperances in the last 15 years. He has recently been active on the issue of refugees' mandatory detention in Australia.

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] Other stories

[edit] Awards

Egan was nominated for award of the 2000 Ditmar Award for best novel with Teranesia. He declined the award, which resulted in any of his future works being ineligible for the award.

[edit] Footnotes

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

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