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Greg Egan (born 20 August 1961) is an Australian science fiction writer and 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. 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. Other themes include genetics, simulated reality, posthumanism, mind uploading, sexuality, artificial intelligence, and the superiority of rational naturalism to religion. 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 2002, Egan co-authored two papers about Riemannian 10j symbols, spin networks appearing in Riemannian quantum gravity, together with John Baez and Dan Christensen. Spin networks also play a central role in his novel Schild's Ladder released the same year. In 2014, Egan conjectured a generalization of the Grace–Danielsson inequality about the relation of the radii of two spheres and the distance of their respective centres to fit a simplex between them to also hold in higher dimensions, which later became known as the Egan conjecture. A proof of the inequality being sufficient was published by him in 2014 under a blog post of John Baez. They were lost due to a rearrangement of the website, but the central parts were copied into the original blog post. Further comments by Greg Egan on 16 April 2018 concern the search for a generalized conjecture involving ellipsoids. A proof of the inequality also being necessary was published by Sergei Drozdov on 16 October 2023 on ArXiv. 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 Scale (2023), ISBN 978-1-922240-44-6 Morphotrophic (2024), ISBN 978-1-922240-51-4 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 Our Lady of Chernobyl (1995), ISBN 0-646-23230-4 Luminous (1998), ISBN 1-85798-551-6 Dark Integers and Other Stories (2008), ISBN 978-1-59606-155-2 Crystal Nights and Other Stories (2009), ISBN 978-1-59606-240-5 Oceanic (2009), ISBN 978-0-575-08652-4 The Best of Greg Egan (2019), ISBN 978-1-59606-942-8 Instantiation (2020) Sleep and The Soul (2023) Phoresis and Other Journeys (2023) Other short fiction 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. Notes References External links Official website Greg Egan at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Greg Egan at Library of Congress Authorities — with 11 catalogue records Stories currently online at Free Speculative Fiction Online. Discover the Greg Egan popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Greg Egan books.
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Qual
Greg EganKönnen wir die Wahrheit denn ertragen? In den Neunzigerjahren vermutete der berühmte Physiker Stephen Hawking, dass es nicht mehr lange dauern würde, bis wir eine vollständige Theo...
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Luminous
Greg EganLuminous is a collection of ten short stories by the awardwinning sciencefiction writer Greg Egan: “Chaff” “Mitochondrial Eve” “Luminous” “Mister Volition” “Cocoon” “Transition Dre...
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Diaspora
Greg EganIn 2975, the orphan Yatima is grown from a randomly mutated digital mind seed in the conceptory of Konishi polis. Yatima explores the Coalition of Polises, the network of computers...
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Quarantine
Greg EganIn 2034, the stars went out. An unknown agency surrounded the solar system with an impenetrable barrier, concealing the universe from humanity’s gaze. In 2067, Nick Stavrianos is h...
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Supermen
Gardner DozoisMindexpanding explorations of the future of the human formOur bodies and minds are malleable, and only the imagination is the limit to the possible improvements. From genetics to a...
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Teranesia
Greg EganPrabir Suresh lives in paradise, a nineyearold boy with an island all his own. Teranesia is his kingdom, shared only with his biologist parents and baby sister. The evolutionary pu...
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The Best of the Best, Volume 2
Gardner DozoisFor more than twenty years The Year's Best Science Fiction has been recognized as the best collection of short science fiction writing in the universe and an essential resource for...
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Axiomatic
Greg EganAxiomatic is a collection of eighteen short stories by the awardwinning sciencefiction writer Greg Egan: “The Infinite Assassin” “The Hundred LightYear Diary” “Eugene” “The Caress”...
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Sleep and the Soul
Greg EganSleep and the Soul contains ten stories from Hugo Awardwinning author Greg Egan. “You and Whose Army?” “This Is Not the Way Home” “Zeitgeber” “Crisis Actors” “Sleep and the So...
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Distress
Greg EganAndrew Worth is a science journalist with optic nerve taps and a gut full of memory chips. Burnt out after completing a documentary on controversial developments in biotechnology, ...
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Scale
Greg EganWhen electronics importer Cara Leon goes missing, private investigator Sam Mujrif is hired by her sister to investigate. Cara is eight times taller than Sam, but evidence soon poin...
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Teranesia
Greg EganWettlauf gegen die ZeitAuf der von Rebellen heftig umkämpften MolukkenInsel Teranesia treten bei Tieren merkwürdige genetische Veränderungen auf, die unmöglich natürlichen Ursprung...
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Instantiation
Greg Egan“Instantiation” is a collection of eleven science fiction stories by Hugo Award winning author Greg Egan: “The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine” “Zero For Conduct” “Uncanny ...
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Explorers
Gardner DozoisDistant planets, galaxies, alien racesthe universe is vast and filled with an almost unimaginable range of possibilities. But imagine it we can. Here are more than twenty stories f...
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Greg Egan
Karen BurnhamGreg Egan (1961 ) publishes works that challenge readers with rigorous, deeplyinformed scientific speculation. He unapologetically delves into mathematics, physics, and other disci...
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Diaspora
Greg EganDas atemberaubende Bild unserer Zivilisation in tausend JahrenAm Ende des nächsten Jahrtausends steht die Menschheit vor einem tiefgreifenden Umbruch. Sie hat nicht nur die Grenzen...
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Phoresis and Other Journeys
Greg EganPhoresis and Other Journeys contains three novellas from Hugo Awardwinning author Greg Egan. “The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred”: civil war in an asteroid colony sees refugees ...
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Worldmakers
Gardner DozoisWhen mankind moves out to the stars, the colonists of the future will remake the worlds they inhabit in their image. Included here are twenty stories from the most imaginative writ...
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Oceanic
Greg EganOceanic is a collection of twelve science fiction stories by Greg Egan, including the Hugoawardwinning title story: “Lost Continent” “Dark Integers” “Crystal Nights” “Steve Fever” ...
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The Book of All Skies
Greg EganDel lives in a world of many skies: by passing through the Hoops embedded in the ground, her people can walk freely between land that lies beneath a new set of constellations for e...
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Cyber-City
Greg EganDer Traum eines GottesIn ferner Zukunft ist Unsterblichkeit nicht mehr unmöglich. Der menschliche Verstand kann gescannt und in eine künstliche Umgebung einprogrammiert werden. Das...
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Permutation City
Greg EganPaul Durham keeps making Copies of himself: software simulations of his own brain and body which can be run in virtual reality, albeit seventeen times more slowly than real time. H...
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The Hard SF Renaissance
David G. Hartwell & Kathryn CramerA major anthology of the "hard SF" subgenrearguing that it's not only the genre's core, but also its future.Something exciting has been happening in modern science fiction. After ...