Greg Egan
Greg Egan
Greg Eganis an Australian science fiction writer...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth20 August 1961
CountryAustralia
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.
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.
want eternity
Nobody wants to spend eternity alone.