Greg Egan (August 20, 1961, Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian computer programmer and science fiction author. August 20 is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... The Perth skyline viewed from the Swan River This article is about the metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia. ... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... In English usage, nationality is the legal relationship between a person and a country. ... A literary genre is one of the divisions of literature into genres according to particular criteria such as literary technique, tone, or content. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... August 20 is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... The Perth skyline viewed from the Swan River This article is about the metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia. ... Note that this partial list contains some authors whose works of fantastic fiction would today be called science fiction, even if they predate, or did not work in that genre. ...

Egan specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness. Other themes include genetics, simulated reality, mind transfer, sexuality, artificial intelligence, and the superiority of rational materialism over religion. He is a Hugo Award winner (and has been shortlisted for the Hugos three other times), and has also won the John W Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel. Some of his earlier short stories feature strong elements of supernatural horror. Hard science fiction, or hard SF, is a category of science fiction characterized by an emphasis on scientific or technical detail, or on scientific accuracy, or on both. ... Euclid, Greek mathematician, 3rd century BC, as imagined by by Raphael in this detail from The School of Athens. ... Quantum Ontology is based on the idea that the underlying reality of quantum mechanics fundamentally alters the nature of mankinds (and, by extension, any other sentient races) ontological existence. ... Consciousness is a quality of the mind generally regarded to comprise qualities such as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and ones environment. ... For a non-technical introduction to the topic, please see Introduction to genetics. ... Simulated reality is the idea that reality could be simulated — usually computer-simulated — to a degree indistinguishable from true reality. ... In transhumanism and science fiction, mind transfer (also referred to as mind uploading or mind downloading, depending on ones point of reference), whole body emulation, or electronic transcendence refers to the hypothetical transfer of a human mind to an artificial substrate. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Hondas humanoid robot, ASIMO The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) was first used by John McCarthy who used it to mean the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.[1] It can also refer to intelligence as exhibited by an artificial (man-made, non-natural, manufactured) entity. ... In epistemology and in its broadest sense, rationalism is any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification (Lacey 286). ... In philosophy, materialism is that form of physicalism which holds that the only thing that can truly be said to exist is matter; that fundamentally, all things are composed of material and all phenomena are the result of material interactions. ... The 2005 Hugo Award with base designed by Deb Kosiba. ... The John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel has been awarded every year since 1973, except in 1994. ... Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the reader. ...

Egan's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including regular appearances in Interzone and Asimov's Science Fiction. Interzone is a British science fiction and fantasy magazine, published since 1982. ... Cover for an issue of Asimovs Science Fiction. ...

Egan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Western Australia, and currently lives in Perth. He has recently been active on the issue of refugees' mandatory detention in Australia. The University of Western Australia (UWA) is the oldest university in the state of Western Australia. ... Mandatory detention in Australia refers to the Australian federal governments policy and system of mandatory detention, under which all persons entering or remaining in the country without a valid visa are compulsorily detained[1]. Immigration detainees are incarcerated in one of the Australian immigration detention facilities on the Australian...

Works

Novels

• An Unusual Angle (1983), ISBN 0-909106-11-8 (not science fiction)
• 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) (May 2008 from Gollancz in the UK)[2]

An Unusual Angle (1983) was the first novel published by Australian science fiction writer Greg Egan. ... See also: 1982 in literature, other events of 1983, 1984 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Quarantine is also a novel by Jim Crace, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. ... See also: 1991 in literature, other events of 1992, 1993 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Permutation City is a science fiction novel (ISBN 1-85798-218-5) by Greg Egan which explores quantum ontology via the various philosophical aspects of artificial life and simulations of intelligence. ... See also: 1993 in literature, other events of 1994, 1995 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Distress is a 1995 science fiction novel by Greg Egan. ... See also: 1994 in literature, other events of 1995, 1996 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Diaspora is a 1997 science fiction novel by Australian writer Greg Egan. ... See also: 1996 in literature, other events of 1997, 1998 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Teranesia is a 1999 science fiction novel by Greg Egan. ... See also: 1998 in literature, other events of 1999, 2000 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Schilds Ladder (ISBN 006107344X) is a 2002 science fiction novel by Greg Egan. ... See also: 2001 in literature, other events of 2002, 2003 in literature, list of years in literature. ...

Collections

• Axiomatic (1995), ISBN 1-85798-281-9
• Our Lady of Chernobyl (1995), ISBN 0-646-23230-4
• Luminous (1998), ISBN 1-85798-551-6
• Oceanic and Other Stories (2000), ISBN 4-15-011337-8 (Japanese)
• Reasons to Be Cheerful and Other Stories (2003), ISBN 4-15-011451-X (Japanese)

Axiomatic is a 1995 collection of short science fiction stories by Greg Egan. ... See also: 1994 in literature, other events of 1995, 1996 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1994 in literature, other events of 1995, 1996 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Luminous is a collection of short science fiction stories by Greg Egan. ... See also: 1997 in literature, other events of 1998, 1999 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1999 in literature, other events of 2000, 2001 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 2002 in literature, other events of 2003, 2004 in literature, list of years in literature. ...

Short stories

Stories collected in Axiomatic

• "The Infinite Assassin"
• "The Hundred Light-Year Diary"
• "Eugene"
• "The Caress"
• "Blood Sisters"
• "Axiomatic"
• "The Safe-Deposit Box"
• "Seeing"
• "A Kidnapping"
• "Learning to Be Me"
• "The Moat"
• "The Walk"
• "The Cutie"
• "Into Darkness"
• "Appropriate Love"
• "The Moral Virologist"
• "Closer"
• "Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies"'

Hackers (ISBN 0-441-00375-3) is an anthology of short stories edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. ...

Stories collected in Luminous

• "Chaff"
• "Mitochondrial Eve"
• "Luminous"
• "Mister Volition"
• "Cocoon"
• "Transition Dreams"
• "Silver Fire"
• "Reasons to Be Cheerful"
• "Our Lady of Chernobyl"
• "The Planck Dive"

Other stories

• "Oracle"
• "Only Connect"
• "Border Guards"
• "Oceanic" (Winner of the Hugo Award)
• "Yeyuka"
• "TAP"
• "Worthless"
• "Mind Vampires"
• "Neighbourhood Watch"
• "Orphanogenesis" ^[1]
• "Wang's Carpets" ^[2]
• "Reification Highway"
• "Dust" ^[3]
• "Before"
• "Fidelity"
• "The Demon's Passage"
• "In Numbers"
• "The Vat"
• "The Extra"
• "Beyond the Whistle Test"
• "Scatter My Ashes"
• "Tangled Up"
• "The Way She Smiles, The Things She Says"
• "Artifact"
• "Singleton" ^[4]
• "Riding the Crocodile"
• "Lost Continent"

TAP is a 1995 novelette by Greg Egan. ... Neighbourhood Watch is a horror short story by Greg Egan. ...

Awards

• Permutation City: John W. Campbell Memorial Award (1995)
• "Oceanic": Hugo Award, Locus Award, Asimov's Readers Award (1998)

Egan was nominated for award of the 2000 Ditmar Award for best novel with Teranesia. He declined the award, which resulted in any of his future works being ineligible for the award. The John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel has been awarded every year since 1973, except in 1994. ... See also: 1994 in literature, other events of 1995, 1996 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The 2005 Hugo Award with base designed by Deb Kosiba. ... The Locus Awards are presented to winners of Locus Magazines annual readers poll, which was established in the early 70s specifically to provide recommendations and suggestions to Hugo Awards voters. ... See also: 1997 in literature, other events of 1998, 1999 in literature, list of years in literature. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Ditmar Award (formally the Australian SF (Ditmar) Award; formerly the Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award) has been awarded annually since 1969 at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention (the Natcon) to recognise achievement in Australian science fiction (including fantasy and horror) and science fiction fandom. ... Teranesia is a 1999 science fiction novel by Greg Egan. ...

Usenet Newsgroups

Egan occasionally contributes posts to a variety of (mostly scientific and/or technical) newsgroups, using his own name. These include: sci.physics.research; sci.math; comp.graphics.algorithms; comp.sys.laptops; comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc; microsoft.public.windowsxp.accessibility; aus.sf; rec.arts.movies.current-films; plus a few others.

From December 1994 to September 1999 he contributed regularly to the group rec.arts.sf.written, where he engaged in dialogue with his readers about his work, and SF in general, which is an invaluable source of information. See External links for the Google archive of these posts. Google News is an automated news aggregator provided by Google Inc. ...

Footnotes

1. ^ "Orphanogenesis" became the opening chapter of the novel Diaspora.
2. ^ Wang refers to the mathematician Wang Hao – the carpets are living embodiments of Wang tiles. This story, minorly reworked, became a section of the novel Diaspora.
3. ^ "Dust" became the opening chapter of the novel Permutation City [1]
4. ^ Singleton introduced the concept of the Qusp, which was later used in the novel Schild's Ladder.

Diaspora is a 1997 science fiction novel by Australian writer Greg Egan. ... Wang Hao (Chinese: 王浩; pinyin: ; 1921 – 1995) was a Chinese-American logician, philosopher and mathematician. ... Wang tiles (or Wang dominoes), first proposed by Hao Wang in 1961, are equal-sized squares with a color on each edge which give rise to a simple undecidable decision problem. ... Diaspora is a 1997 science fiction novel by Australian writer Greg Egan. ... Permutation City is a science fiction novel (ISBN 1-85798-218-5) by Greg Egan which explores quantum ontology via the various philosophical aspects of artificial life and simulations of intelligence. ... Schilds Ladder (ISBN 006107344X) is a 2002 science fiction novel by Greg Egan. ...

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• Open Directory category: Greg Egan
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• Greg Egan at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Google archive of Egan's posts to rec.arts.sf.written