Greg Egan (
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 (
http://www.uwa.edu.au/).
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 and sentient software.
- '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'
- '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'
- Permutation City: John W. Campbell Memorial Award (1995)
- Oceanic: Hugo Award, Locus Award, Asimov's Readers Award (1998)
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