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Greg Egan (born August 20, 1961) is an Australian (Perth-based) computer programmer and science fiction author. He has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Western Australia.
Egan specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and metaphysical themes, including the nature of consciousness. Other themes include genetics, simulated reality, mind transfer, homosexuality, asexuality and artificial intelligence. He is a Hugo winner (and has been shortlisted for the Hugos three other times), and also winner of the John W Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel, one of the three major annual awards for science fiction. Some of his earlier short stories feature strong elements of supernatural horror.
Like all good science fiction writers, Egan deals in ideas, but he also writes very well too. His 1994 novel Permutation City was a highly praised exploration of the copying of human personalities or minds, with a visionary hero who challenges society's understanding of 'copies', and of identity, computing, the laws of physics and reality.
Works
Novels
Collections
Stories
- 'Singleton'
- 'Oracle'
- 'Only Connect'
- 'Border Guards'
- 'Oceanic'
- 'The Planck Dive'
- 'Yeyuka'
- 'Reasons to Be Cheerful'
- 'Silver Fire'
- 'TAP'
- 'Mister Volition'
- 'Luminous'
- 'Wang's Carpets'
- 'A Kidnapping'
- 'Seeing'
- 'Mitochondrial Eve'
- 'Cocoon'
- 'Our Lady of Chernobyl'
- 'Chaff'
- 'Transition Dreams'
- 'The Walk'
- 'Reification Highway'
- 'Closer'
- 'Worthless'
- 'Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies'
- 'Dust'
- 'Before'
- 'The Hundred Light-Year Diary'
- 'Into Darkness'
- 'Fidelity'
- 'Appropriate Love'
- 'The Demon's Passage'
- 'The Infinite Assassin'
- 'The Moat'
- 'In Numbers'
- "Blood Sisters" (1991)
- 'The Vat'
- 'The Moral Virologist'
- 'Axiomatic'
- 'The Extra'
- 'The Safe-Deposit Box'
- 'Learning to Be Me'
- 'Eugene'
- 'The Caress'
- 'Beyond the Whistle Test'
- 'The Cutie'
- 'Scatter My Ashes'
- 'Neighbourhood Watch'
- 'Mind Vampires'
- 'Tangled Up'
- 'The Way She Smiles, The Things She Says'
- 'Artifact'
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