Greg Egan
Greg Egan
Greg Eganis an Australian science fiction writer...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth20 August 1961
CountryAustralia
industry major producing publishing sure trouble work
Even if I have no trouble producing new work for another 40 years, the publishing industry is sure to go through some major upheavals.
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.
society use century
Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.
cages emerging loses
On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.
tough-times may stranger
The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.
airports june car
It was almost noon when the plane touched down at the Triad airport on the outskirts of Greensboro. There was a hire car waiting for me; I waved my notepad at the dashboard to transmit my profile, then waited as the seating and controls rearranged themselves slightly, piezoelectric actuators humming. As I started to reverse out of the parking bay, the stereo began a soothing improvisation, flashing up a deadpan title: Music for Leaving Airports 11 June 2008.
winning perspective nominations
I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.
years branches diaspora
Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.
overrated has-beens
Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.
years want doe
How does it feel to be seven thousand years old? That depends. On what? On how I want to feel.
journalism truth-is
No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.
want eternity
Nobody wants to spend eternity alone.
fandoms clubs social
Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club.