Greg Egan
Greg Egan
Greg Eganis an Australian science fiction writer...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth20 August 1961
CountryAustralia
book conceited firsts
Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.
flying kind pops
Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.
culture humans screws
Screw every known human culture.
dark years skulls
I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.
tough-times may stranger
The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.
suffering quality way
Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that.
cages emerging loses
On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.
force
For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.
growing-up lying emotional
No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't want to be in… and they make the best of it. But don't try to tell me it's some kind of… glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It's not.
society use century
Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.
wagers pascal modern
You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.
lying mean sake
Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.
artist years albums
I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants.
thinking opportunity needs
I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.