Greg Egan

Greg Egan
Born Gregory Mark Egan
20 August 1961
Perth
Occupation Writer, former programmer
Nationality Australian
Period 1983-present (as SF writer)
Genre Science fiction
Website
www.gregegan.net

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

Life

Egan published his first work in 1983.[1] He 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 uploading, sexuality, artificial intelligence, and the superiority of rational naturalism over religion. He is known for his tendency to deal with complex technical material, like inventive new physics and epistemology, in an unapologetically thorough manner. He is a Hugo Award winner (with eight other works shortlisted for the Hugos) and has also won the John W Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel.[2] His early 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 has recently been active on the issue of asylum seekers' mandatory detention in Australia.[3] Egan is a vegetarian.[4]

Egan does not attend science fiction conventions,[5] does not sign books, and appears in no photographs on the Web,[6] though both SF fan sites and Google Search[7] have at times mistakenly represented photos of other people with the same name as being of the writer.

Works

Novels

Orthogonal trilogy
Main article: Orthogonal (novel)

Collections

Axiomatic (1995), ISBN 1-85798-281-9

  • 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[8]
  • Closer[9]
  • Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies

Our Lady of Chernobyl (1995), ISBN 0-646-23230-4

  • Chaff
  • Beyond the Whistle Test
  • Transition Dreams
  • Our Lady of Chernobyl

Luminous (1998), ISBN 1-85798-551-6

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

Dark Integers and Other Stories (2008), ISBN 978-1-59606-155-2

Crystal Nights and Other Stories (2009), ISBN 978-1-59606-240-5

Oceanic (2009), ISBN 978-0-575-08652-4

  • Lost Continent
  • Dark Integers
  • Crystal Nights
  • Steve Fever
  • Induction
  • Singleton
  • Oracle
  • Border Guards
  • Riding the Crocodile
  • Glory
  • Hot Rock
  • Oceanic

Other short fiction

Academic papers

Awards

Egan is a multiple Seiun Award winner[2]

Teranesia was named winner of the 2000 Ditmar Award for best novel but Egan declined the award.[2]

Usenet newsgroups

Egan occasionally contributes posts to a variety of (mostly scientific and/or technical) Usenet newsgroups, using his own name. 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.

Notes

  1. ↑ Singleton introduced the concept of the Qusp, which was later used in the novel Schild's Ladder.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Dust was incorporated into the novel Permutation City as the first few chapters in one narrative thread.
  4. ↑ Event symmetry note on Egan's Dust Theory

References

  1. ↑ "Bibliography". Gregegan.net. 7 August 2014. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Greg Egan". Science Fiction Awards Database (sfadb.com). Mark R. Kelly and the Locus Science Fiction Foundation. 2012–2013.
  3. ↑ Egan, Greg (17 February 2005). "Letters from the forgotten - Opinion". www.theage.com.au. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  4. ↑ Egan, Greg (19 October 2008). "Iran Trip Diary: Part 2, Esfahan". Gregegan.net. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  5. ↑ Farr, Russell (September 1997). "Interviews". Gregegan.net. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  6. ↑ "Photos of Greg Egan, science fiction writer". Gregegan.net. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  7. ↑ Egan, Greg (24 August 2012). "Google, the Stupidity Amplifier". Gregegan.net. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  8. ↑ Egan, Greg (January 1993). "The Moral Virologist". eidolon.net. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  9. ↑ Egan, Greg (April 1992). "Closer". eidolon.net. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  10. ↑ Egan, Greg (31 December 2006). "Riding the Crocodile". Gregegan.net. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  11. ↑ Egan, Greg (October 2007). "Dark Integers". Asimovs.com. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  12. ↑ "Harper Voyager Books: FREE HUGO SHORT STORIES: Ken Macleod and Greg Egan". Outofthiseos.typepad.com. 27 March 2008. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  13. ↑ Egan, Greg (27 January 2009). "Interzone: Science Fiction & Fantasy - Crystal Nights". TTA Press. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  14. ↑ Egan, Greg (2007-10-15). "Steve Fever | MIT Technology Review". Technologyreview.com. Retrieved 2014-08-26.
  15. ↑ Egan, Greg (8 August 2002). "Singleton". Gregegan.net. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  16. ↑ Egan, Greg (12 November 2000). "Oracle". Gregegan.net. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  17. ↑ Egan, Greg (12 April 1999). "Border Guards". Gregegan.net. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  18. ↑ Egan, Greg (9 August 2000). "Only Connect". Gregegan.net. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  19. ↑ Egan, Greg (1997). "Yeyuka - a short story". Infinityplus.co.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  20. ↑ Egan, Greg (1992). "Worthless - a short story". Infinityplus.co.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  21. ↑ Egan, Greg (29 May 2001). "Mind Vampires". Gregegan.net. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  22. ↑ Egan, Greg (July 1991). "The Demon's Passage". eidolon.net. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  23. ↑ Egan, Greg (December 1990). "The Vat". eidolon.net. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  24. ↑ Egan, Greg (August 1990). "The Extra". eidolon.net. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  25. ↑ Egan, Greg (16 May 2001). "Scatter My Ashes". Gregegan.net. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  26. ↑ "[gr-qc/0110045] An efficient algorithm for the Riemannian 10j symbols". Arxiv.org. 24 January 2002. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  27. ↑ "[gr-qc/0208010] Asymptotics of 10j symbols". Arxiv.org. 4 November 2002. Retrieved 23 August 2014.

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