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Greg Egan
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Born | Gregory Mark Egan 20 August 1961 Perth, Western Australia, Australia |
Occupation | Writer, former programmer |
Nationality | Australian |
Period | 1983–present (as SF writer) |
Genre | Science fiction |
Greg Egan (born 20 August 1961) is an Australian science fiction writer and amateur mathematician, best known for his works of hard science fiction. Egan has won multiple awards including the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Hugo Award, and the Locus Award.
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Life and work
Egan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Western Australia.
He published his first work in 1983. He specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness. ..... He often deals with complex technical material, like new physics and epistemology. 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 Science Fiction 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.
Mathematics
In 2018, Egan described a construction of superpermutations, thus giving an upper bound to their length. On 27 February 2019, using ideas developed by Robin Houston and others, Egan produced a superpermutation of n = 7 symbols of length 5906, breaking previous records.
Personal life
As of 2015, Egan lives in Perth. He is a vegetarian and an atheist.
Egan does not attend science fiction conventions, does not sign books, and has stated that he 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 those of the writer.
Awards
- Permutation City: John W. Campbell Memorial Award (1995)
- Oceanic: Hugo Award, Locus Award, Asimov's Readers' Award (1999)
- Distress: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis as Best Foreign Fiction (2000)
Egan's work has won the Japanese Seiun Award for best translated fiction seven times.
Teranesia was named the winner of the 2000 Ditmar Award for best novel, but 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: 978-1-59780-128-7
- Zendegi (2010), ISBN: 978-1-59780-174-4
- Dichronauts (2017), ISBN: 978-1597808927
- The Book of All Skies (2021), ISBN: 978-1-922240-38-5
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 (2013), ISBN: 978-0-575-10576-8
Collections
Axiomatic (1995), ISBN: 1-85798-281-9
- The Infinite Assassin (1991)
- The Hundred Light-Year Diary (1992)
- Eugene (1990)
- The Caress (1990)
- Blood Sisters (1991)
- Axiomatic (1990)
- The Safe-Deposit Box (1990)
- Seeing (1995)
- A Kidnapping (1995)
- Learning to Be Me (1990)
- The Moat (1991)
- The Walk (1992)
- The Cutie (1989)
- Into Darkness (1992)
- Appropriate Love (1991)
- The Moral Virologist (1990)
- Closer (1992)
- Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies (1992)
Our Lady of Chernobyl (1995), ISBN: 0-646-23230-4
- Chaff (1993)
- Beyond the Whistle Test (1989)
- Transition Dreams (1993)
- Our Lady of Chernobyl (1994)
Luminous (1998), ISBN: 1-85798-551-6
- Chaff (1993)
- Mitochondrial Eve (1995)
- Luminous (1995)
- Mister Volition (1995)
- Cocoon (1994)
- Transition Dreams (1993)
- Silver Fire (1995)
- Reasons to Be Cheerful (1997)
- Our Lady of Chernobyl (1994)
- The Planck Dive (1998)
Dark Integers and Other Stories (2008), ISBN: 978-1-59606-155-2
- Luminous (1995)
- Riding the Crocodile (2005)
- Dark Integers (2007)
- Glory (2007)
- Oceanic (1998)
Crystal Nights and Other Stories (2009), ISBN: 978-1-59606-240-5
- Lost Continent (2008)
- Crystal Nights (2008)
- Steve Fever (2007)
- TAP (1995)
- Induction (2007)
- Singleton (2002)
- Oracle (2000)
- Border Guards (1999)
- Hot Rock (2009)
Oceanic (2009), ISBN: 978-0-575-08652-4
- Lost Continent (2008)
- Dark Integers (2007)
- Crystal Nights (2008)
- Steve Fever (2007)
- Induction (2007)
- Singleton (2002)
- Oracle (2000)
- Border Guards (1999)
- Riding the Crocodile (2005)
- Glory (2007)
- Hot Rock (2009)
- Oceanic (1998)
The Best of Greg Egan (2019), ISBN: 978-1-59606-942-8
- Learning to Be Me (1990)
- Axiomatic (1990)
- Appropriate Love (1991)
- Into Darkness (1992)
- Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies (1992)
- Closer (1992)
- Chaff (1993)
- Luminous (1995)
- Silver Fire (1995)
- Reasons to be Cheerful (1997)
- Oceanic (1998)
- Oracle (2000)
- Singleton (2002)
- Dark Integers (2007)
- Crystal Nights (2008)
- Zero For Conduct (2013)
- Bit Players (2014)
- Uncanny Valley (2017)
- 3-adica (2018)
- Instantiation (2019)
Instantiation (2020)
- The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine (2017)
- Zero For Conduct (2013)
- Uncanny Valley (2017)
- Seventh Sight (2014)
- The Nearest (2018)
- Shadow Flock (2014)
- Bit Players (2014)
- Break My Fall (2014)
- 3-adica (2018)
- The Slipway (2019)
- Instantiation (2019)
Other short fiction
- Artifact (1983)
- The Way She Smiles, The Things She Says (1985)
- Tangled Up (1985)
- Mind Vampires (1986)
- Neighbourhood Watch (1987)
- Scatter My Ashes (1988)
- The Extra (1990)
- The Vat (1990)
- In Numbers (1991)
- The Demon's Passage (1991)
- Fidelity (1991)
- Before (1992)
- Dust (1992)
- Worthless (1992)
- Reification Highway (1992)
- Wang's Carpets (1995)
- Yeyuka (1997)
- Only Connect (2000)
- In the Ruins (2013)
- The Four Thousand, The Eight Hundred (2016), ISBN: 978-1-59606-791-2
- Phoresis (2018), ISBN: 978-1-59606-866-7
- Perihelion Summer (2019), ISBN: 978-1-250-31378-2
- This is Not the Way Home (2019)
- Zeitgeber (2019)
- Dispersion (2020)
- You and Whose Army? (2020)
- Light Up the Clouds (2021)
- Sleep and the Soul (2021)
Excerpted
- Diaspora:
- "Orphanogenesis" in Interzone issue 123, September 1997
Academic papers
- An Efficient Algorithm for the Riemannian 10j Symbols by Dan Christensen and Greg Egan
- Asymptotics of 10j Symbols by John Baez, Dan Christensen and Greg Egan
- Conic-Helical Orbits of Planets around Binary Stars do not Exist by Greg Egan
Short movies
The production of a short film inspired by the story "Axiomatic" commenced in 2015, and the film was released online in October 2017.
See also
In Spanish: Greg Egan para niños
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