Greg Egan

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Greg Egan bigraphy, stories - Australian science fiction writer and former computer programmer

Greg Egan : biography

20 August 1961 –

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

Egan published his first work in 1983. 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. 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 refugees’ mandatory detention in Australia. in The Age newspaper Egan is a vegetarian.

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

Awards

  • Permutation City: John W. Campbell Memorial Award (1995)
  • Oceanic: Hugo Award, Locus Award, Asimov’s Readers Award (1999)

Egan is a multiple Seiun Award winner.

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

Works

Novels

  • An Unusual Angle (1983), ISBN 0-909106-12-6
  • 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 1-59780-128-3
  • Zendegi (2010), ISBN 978-1-59780-174-4

Orthogonal trilogy

  • The Clockwork Rocket (2011), ISBN 978-1-59780-227-7
  • The Eternal Flame (2012), ISBN 978-1-59780-293-2
  • The Arrows of Time (to be published in 2013)

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 978-1-59606-155-2
  • Crystal Nights and Other Stories (2009), ISBN 978-1-59606-240-5
  • Oceanic (2009), ISBN 978-0-575-08652-4

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
  • Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies

Stories collected in Our Lady Of Chernobyl

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

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