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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 has recently been active on the issue of refugees' mandatory detention in Australia.

Contents

Works

Novels

Collections

Short stories

Stories collected in ''Axiomatic''

Stories collected in ''Luminous''

Other stories

Awards

Usenet Newsgroups

Footnotes

External links

Works

Novels

★ ''An Unusual Angle'' (1983), ISBN 0-909106-11-8 (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) (May 2008, Night Shade Books (US) and Gollancz (UK))[1]

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

★ ''Oceanic and Other Stories'' (2000), ISBN 4-15-011337-8

★ ''Reasons to Be Cheerful and Other Stories'' (2003), ISBN 4-15-011451-X

Short stories

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"'

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"

Other stories

★ "Oracle"

★ "Only Connect"

★ "Border Guards"

★ "Oceanic" (Winner of the Hugo Award)

★ "Yeyuka"

★ "TAP"

★ "Worthless"

★ "Mind Vampires"

★ "Neighbourhood Watch"

★ "Orphanogenesis" ^[1]

★ "Wang's Carpets" ^[2]

★ "Reification Highway"

★ "Dust" ^[3]

★ "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"

★ "Singleton" ^[4]

★ "Riding the Crocodile"

★ "Lost Continent"

Awards

★ ''Permutation City'': John W. Campbell Memorial Award (1995)

★ "Oceanic": Hugo Award, Locus Award, Asimov's Readers Award (1998)
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.

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 SF in general, which is an invaluable source of information. See ''External links'' for the Google archive of these posts.

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'' [2]
4. ''Singleton'' introduced the concept of the ''Qusp'', which was later used in the novel ''Schild's Ladder''.

External links

★ Open Directory category: Greg Egan

★ Greg Egan's homepage

★ Greg Egan's online fiction at Free Speculative Fiction Online

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★ Google archive of Egan's posts to rec.arts.sf.written