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Greg Egan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Greg Egan
Born 20 August 1961 (age 48)
Perth, Western Australia
Occupation Writer, former Programmer
Nationality Australian
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 vegetarian.[1]

Egan is a famously reclusive author when it comes to public appearances, he doesn't attend science fiction conventions[2], doesn't sign books and there are no photos available of him on the web[3].Contents [hide]
1 Works
1.1 Novels
1.2 Collections
1.3 Short stories
1.3.1 Stories collected in Axiomatic
1.3.2 Stories collected in Our Lady Of Chernobyl
1.3.3 Stories collected in Luminous
1.3.4 Stories collected in Dark Integers and Other Stories
1.3.5 Stories collected in Crystal Nights and Other Stories
1.3.6 Other stories
2 Awards
3 Usenet Newsgroups
4 Footnotes
5 External links

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Works
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Novels
An Unusual Angle (1983), ISBN 0-909106-12-6 (not science fiction)
Quarantine (1992), ISBN 0-7126-9870-1
Permutation City (1994), ISBN 1-85798-174-X
Distress (1995), ISBN 1-85798-286-X
Diaspora (1997), ISBN 1-85798-438-2
Teranesia (1999), ISBN 0-575-06854-X
Schild's Ladder (2002), ISBN 0-575-07068-4
Incandescence (2008), ISBN 1597801283
Zendegi (June 2010), ISBN 978-1597801744
Orthogonal (late 2011 or early 2012)
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Collections
Axiomatic (1995), ISBN 1-85798-281-9
Our Lady of Chernobyl (1995), ISBN 0-646-23230-4
Luminous (1998), ISBN 1-85798-551-6
Dark Integers and Other Stories (2008), ISBN 978-1596061552
Crystal Nights and Other Stories (2009), ISBN 978-1596062405
Oceanic (2009), ISBN 978-0575086524
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Short stories
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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'
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Stories collected in Our Lady Of Chernobyl
Chaff
Beyond the Whistle Test
Transition Dreams
Our Lady of Chernobyl
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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
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Stories collected in Dark Integers and Other Stories
Luminous
Riding the Crocodile
Dark Integers
Glory
Oceanic
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Stories collected in Crystal Nights and Other Stories
Lost Continent
Crystal Nights
Steve Fever
TAP
Induction
Singleton[4]
Oracle
Border Guards
Hot Rock
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Other stories
Only Connect
Yeyuka
Worthless
Mind Vampires
Neighbourhood Watch
Wang's Carpets[5]
Reification Highway
Dust[6]
Before
Fidelity
The Demon's Passage
In Numbers
The Vat
The Extra
Beyond the Whistle Test
Scatter My Ashes
Tangled Up
The Way She Smiles, The Things She Says
Artifact
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Awards
Permutation City: John W. Campbell Memorial Award (1995)
Oceanic: Hugo Award, Locus Award, Asimov's Readers Award (1998)

Egan was nominated for the 2000 Ditmar Award for best novel with Teranesia. He declined the award.
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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.
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Footnotes
^ Iran Trip Diary
^ Interviews
^ Photos of Greg Egan, science fiction writer
^ Singleton introduced the concept of the Qusp, which was later used in the novel Schild's Ladder.
^ 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.
^ Dust became the opening chapter of the novel Permutation City Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Greg Egan

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External links
Official site
Greg Egan at the Open Directory Project
Greg Egan's online fiction at Free Speculative Fiction Online
Greg Egan at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Google archive of Egan's posts to rec.arts.sf.written


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