Greg Egan
Greg Egan
Greg Eganis an Australian science fiction writer...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth20 August 1961
CountryAustralia
fall gazing faces
If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall flat on our face, over and over agaain.
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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.
fandoms clubs social
Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club.
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.
writing stories
I've been taking longer to write stories lately.
writing long gaps
I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.
want eternity
Nobody wants to spend eternity alone.
journalism truth-is
No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.
overrated has-beens
Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.
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.
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.
writing things-change interest
I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.
years want doe
How does it feel to be seven thousand years old? That depends. On what? On how I want to feel.