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	Greg Egan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Greg Egan (August 20, 1961, Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian computer programmer and science fiction author.
		Egan specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness.
		Egan's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including regular appearances in Interzone and Asimov's Science Fiction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greg_Egan (383 words)

	Fiction Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Egan's cosmology, there are three branches of evolution from present day humans: there are 'exuberent' (genetically modified) and 'static' (unmodified) humans, gleisner robots (conscious embodied AIs) and conscious disembodied software, who inhabit virtual environments known as polises.
		is typical Egan, which is to say that the ideas are wonderful and plentiful, and the description of complex processes and discoveries is both convincing and exciting: the first section, telling the story of the birth and development of Yatima, a polis citizen, is a remarkable piece of SF in itself.
		In a sense, this is science fiction at its purest: Egan has a supreme ability to write about scientific ideas in a mind boggling way, and a pedestrian talent in the other main areas of storytelling - you either enjoy his novels for the ideas or not at all.
	www.concatenation.org /frev/diaspora.html (428 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Schild's Ladder
		Greg Egan was born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1961.
		Egan is tapping into one of the more fascinating aspects of the last decade in physics, the growing merger of quantum physics with cosmology, and the wondrous implications of the effect of the physics of the very small on the creation of the universe.
		In this way Egan gives just enough to care about these characters and their problems, without hiding the fact that they and their lives are much different than ours, and their problems are discussed in language that can force the reader to take a break every few pages, just to try and figure it out.
	www.sfsite.com /03b/sl124.htm (1090 words)

	Greg Egan's Website \| MetaFilter
		March 17, 2003 1:17 PM Greg Egan's website, including 17 full stories (my favorite) and explanations (by the author) of some of the science (including quantum soccer) in his books.
		Egan is one of the few science fiction writers out there whose science actually feels up to date.
		Greg Egan probably designed the site himself, he certainly designed the applets, which were created with Wolfram's Mathematica.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/24377 (1515 words)

	Greg Egan, Permutation City
		But when the author is Greg Egan, you'll discover that a blurb like that is not as much of an exaggeration as it seems.
		Greg Egan is perhaps less concerned with creating an objective SF world underpinned by plausible physics than he is in creating challenging and exciting spin-off worlds.
		I believe this is at least one of the reasons why Egan uses the words "Permutation City" in an anagram-poem at the beginning of his novel.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Rampart/2547/skyzc.htm (504 words)

	Review of Greg Egan's "Permutation City"
		Egan had to set his story far enough in the future to get really really powerful computers, but he has no particular interest in the politics, sociology, or otherwise of this future world.
		Egan does neither; he is heading so determinedly towards the action in the last few pages that he doesn't seem to have noticed the magnitude of the engine he has created to get us there.
		Egan may have noticed this at some point; one character mentions the fact in passing, but they all continue inexplicably working on the project regardless.
	users.aol.com /dmchess/www/permcity.html (876 words)

	SS > SF > book reviews > Greg Egan
		In true Greg Egan fashion, what is actually at stake is the future, and past, of the entire universe.
		Egan packs in neat ideas, deep physics, deeper metaphysics, rants about religion and ignorances cults, thoughts on sociobiology and politics, biotechnology, pharmacology and ethics, and lots more, in a deeply interesting page-turner.
		Egan does it again: a bold imagining of an immense future in an immense universe, with diamond-hard physics, an obvious love of mathematics, and deep ponderings on the meaning and purpose of life.
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/sf/books/e/egan.htm (2270 words)

	Axiomatic (Greg Egan) - book review
		Egan's Axiomatic is a collection of short stories solidly in the classical tradition of science fiction.
		While some of the stories are based on physics (and particularly quantum mechanics), Egan also draws on more recent work in molecular biology and computer science for inspiration.
		His stories are never pure technical gimmickry, either: the science is largely taken as given and it is the social, psychological and philosophical consequences which are explored.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Axiomatic.html (134 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Luminous: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Greg Egan is an Australian with a worldwide perspective--seven of the ten stories in this fine and thoughtful collection appeared in Britain's premier SF magazine Interzone and the rest in America's Asimov's SF Magazine.
		SF has long been described as the genre of "What if", meaning that most science fiction stories take as their premise a hypothetical question such as "what if there were a male birth control pill" and use it as the grist for a story.
		This new collection of short stories by Greg Egan delivers more of the hard, thoughtful, Australian Cyberpunk and Science Fiction that he is famous for.'Luminous' is more than just your average Cyberpunk techno-romp, Egan deals with the big issues.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1857985737 (706 words)

	Special Circumstances: Teranesia by Greg Egan
		Greg Egan is one of the few contemporary hard-sf authors to write about science passionately.
		In previous novels, Greg Egan used speculative physics and ideas about artificial life, while in this novel he explores ideas in entomology, genetics and evolutionary theory.
		While the people involved in the story get a larger role and some individuating personalities, sometimes the old Greg Egan resurfaces and possesses a character if a scientific explanation is warranted at some stage in the plot.
	www.cs.sfu.ca /~anoop/weblog/archives/000140.html (541 words)

	PNN: Review of Luminous by Greg Egan
		Egan has almost single-handedly revived the "sense-of-wonder" that is so often cited as the distinguishing feature of good SF, by extrapolating well from a forbidding array of modern science and technology, including quantum mechanics, genetic engineering, computing, number theory and the philosophy of mind.
		The stories, while individually good, are covering ground that Egan has already thoroughly explored, and there are no stories as original as "Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies" and "The Infinite Assassin" or as hard-hitting as "The Cutie", from the earlier collection.
		It's by no means a bad collection, and Egan remains the SF writer with the greatest command of modern science and technology, but it lacks some of the originality of his earlier works.
	www.plokta.com /pnn/luminous19980926.html (292 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Diaspora
		Greg Egan has won the John W Campbell Memorial Prize, a juried award for the best book of the year.
		Egan tracks his creatures through a seemingly endless chain of events that carry them ever further from their beginnings.
		So seamlessly does Egan handle the segues, it is all too easy to get swept up in the flow, to move forward lifetimes without noting the race into the future.
	www.sfsite.com /05b/dia33.htm (573 words)

	Wang's Carpets by Greg Egan
		Greg Egan (1961-) is the most prominent SF writer from Australia on the world stage.
		Though "Wang's Carpets" is most memorable for the image of a naturally-occurring computer program in which exists virtual life, this is contrasted with a solipsistic transhumanity: nearly immortal post-humans who search the universe for non-human intelligence because their survival depends on finding that the universe is not just all about them.
		Egan said, "When I write about the far future, I'm not interested in pretending that all our current problems -- things like disease, poverty, war and racism -- are going to be with us for the next ten thousand years.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /exper/kcramer/HSFR/wangscar.html (610 words)

	Duke HR - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Having worked with cancer patients in Duke University Medical Center for years, Greg Egan knew that he worked at a special place, but when doctors at Duke performed open-heart surgery on his newborn son six years ago he discovered firsthand the medical miracles that Duke delivers every day.
		Egan suffered the anxiety any parent would, but the difference for him was the immense trust and faith he had in Duke's doctors because he knew them and had seen the extraordinary work they do.
		When Egan takes a step back and looks at all of the things that are achieved at Duke each day, he is truly amazed and honored to be a part of it.
	www.hr.duke.edu /news/duke_stars2005_egan.html (466 words)

	Review: Greg Egan's Schild's Ladder, reviewed by Karen Burnham
		Egan is positing a whole new type of space-time at the quantum level.
		Egan paints a future where one can revel in the possibilities of infinite human variety, yet all are still recognizably human.
		Egan has written a good plot, with strong pacing, fun characters, and an atmosphere of lightness that makes it an easier read for those of us who don't have a combined Ph.D. in Math and Physics.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2002/20021202/ladder.shtml (1624 words)

	Greg Egan, Diaspora
		Everything is possible inside a polis, and in this respect Egan's VR characters are similar to the characters in Iain M. Banks' Culture novels.
		In the "real" universe outside the polises, however, a double threat is brewing: binary neutron stars spiralling towards a collision, spelling gamma-ray annihilation to flesher humans; and a thirty-millionfold greater radiation pulse exploding outwards from the galactic core that will wipe out everyone else, including the gleisners and the polises.
		Besides an evocative description of life in VR, therefore, the novel is a scientific detective story that employs the latest theories on neutron stars, fl holes and wormholes.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Rampart/2547/skyza.htm (362 words)

	Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan
		It is a testament to Egan's creativity that he's managed to write as many entertaining books as he has under these conditions.
		As scaffolding for this scenario, Egan describes in a remarkable amount of detail a view of future physics, quantum graph theory, loosely based on loop quantum gravity.
		The fact that Egan's physics is more grounded in real physics than most other science fiction cannot excuse the fact that he never graps that sense or awe of wonder that this sort of thing needs.
	www.computercrowsnest.com /sfnews2/02_june/review0602_1.shtml (916 words)

	Greg Egan: Axiomatic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Axiomatic is a collection of eighteen short stories by Greg Egan, the Australian author of Quarantine and Permutation City.
		Egan's ideas stretch your head the way the better cyberpunk does, without cyberpunk's self-indulgent grime and alienation.
		Egan has an improbable knack for making this sort of solipsistic navel-gazing interesting.
	www.epiphyte.net /SF/axiomatic.html (296 words)

	Permutation City Review
		Greg Egan is one of the most inventive and exciting current SF writers.
		Egan seems to concentrate on three areas of speculation: physics, especially esoteric "structure of the universe" notions, biology, especially notions about the nature of the human brain, and computer science.
		For one reason or another, Egan's novels seem to get less notice in the US than I think they deserve: partly, perhaps, because they are published first in the UK, and don't get over here until some time later.
	www.sff.net /people/richard.horton/permcity.htm (504 words)

	Postviews - past SF reviews, by authors, E (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Egan is also on of the shrinking band of science-fiction writers who don't just produce "detective stories with lasers", "war stories in space" or "family dramas with cloning", instead marvelling at science, extrapolating and playing "what-if?" games.
		Egan is becoming Robert L Forward, clever but a little cold, and less interesting than he has been.
		Egan makes some very clever moves in these and is unafraid to confront deep philosophical and moral issues.
	homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au /agapow/Postviews/past_e-e.html (4624 words)

	Amazon.com: Distress: A Novel: Books: Greg Egan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Egan not only understands technology and science, and not only has the imagniation to forsee the future in ways which are original and thought provoking, but is able to see the social consequences of technology.
		Egan's story, especially in the first two thirds of the novel, is an almost entirely successful and constant challange to the mind, in an enjoyable story.
		Egan's prose is powerful, and you can often enjoy his phrases, and while his minor characters are awfully indistinguishable, the two major ones, Violet Mosala and Andrew Worth, are very well realised and are sympathetic.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0061052647?v=glance (2058 words)

	eidolon.net
		Egan's second novel, Quarantine, was published to positive reviews last year and he is currently at work on a third.
		Greg; little biographical detail about you is generally available, other than that you were born in Perth in 1961 and worked in the Medical Physics Department of a Perth hospital.
		Well Greg, thank you for agreeing to be interviewed; I'm sure our readers will appreciate this glimpse of the man behind the name.
	eidolon.net /?section=old_site&visiting_section=old_site&page=/old_site/issue_11/11_egan.htm (6268 words)

	Novel Reflections: Greg Egan Bibliography
		Greg Egan is a writer and computer programmer who has published a number of hard science fiction novels.
		Egan does this with very complex subjects, including quantum theory, genetics, biotechnology and artificial intelligence.
		These short stories are presented with their first publication information, although most of them have been republished, some in Egan's Collections Luminous and Axiomatic.
	www.novelreflections.com /authors/greg-egan/bibliography.php (204 words)

	TTA PRESS DISCUSSION FORUM: What happened to Greg Egan? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Greg Egan is notourious in avoiding SF Fandom, in particular I believed he avoids the SF convention circuit even though it most probably would have raised his profile.
		Egan attended a small number of conventions in Australia during the early '80s, but to my knowledge he hasn't attended a convention in a number of years.
		Well, Greg's signed the contract to write the story, so as long as he actually delivers, there'll be at least one new Greg Egan story out in late 2005/early 2006 (not sure yet when the book's going to be published).
	www.ttapress.com /discus/messages/541/660.html#POST10744 (2346 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: Teranesia / Greg Egan
		Instead, the strength of Egan's characterization lies in the inner turmoil Prabir has had to endure for well-nigh twenty years in the aftermath of childhood horrors.
		Egan only stumbles in the book's final chapters, as the mystery takes a potentially tragic turn and the story, which has been speeding along in fifth gear for most of its length (short of Crichton, you don't usually see SF this fast-paced), suddenly slams on the brakes for its finale.
		Egan actually should have taken his time here, offering a clearer scientific explanation for the book's resolution and allowing for better closure where characters' relationships were concerned.
	www.sfreviews.net /teranesia.html (674 words)

	Greg Egan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The heroes of Greg Egan's novels are not necessarily flesh and blood.
		In fact, it is likely to be the concept around which the novel is based that takes centre stage rather than any mere construct of flesh and blood.
		Stacked up against the average mindless trash, aimed at lowest common denominators which seems to flow unchecked across the Atlantic, Egan's work is a breath of fresh air.
	homepage.eircom.net /~albedo1/html/greg_egan.html (427 words)

	Fiction Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Egan adopts a thriller style - more successfully than in his earlier novels - to describe the antics of various groups as they try to support or destroy Mosala and her theory.
		As usual, the plot shows us various plausible extrapolations of technology - the biotech that built the island, intelligent agents, engineered viruses - but the narrative drive of the story comes from the working out in the plot of the arguments over the meaning of a Theory of Everything.
		Again as usual, Egan opts for the most radical possible option as the truth: that the theory literally creates the universe.
	www.concatenation.org /frev/distress.html (243 words)

	Hyperstition: Memes and Outlooks in Greg Egan’s Diaspora
		In Egan’s envisaged world, the refusal to evolve and the desire to retrogress, espoused from a stubbornly maintained moral high ground, are exposed as nothing more than disastrous cowardice and parochial intellectual narrowness.
		Egan’s ‘explanation’ for this fearful refusal to give up the physical human form comes in his subtle hints as to the role memes have played in shaping flesher history and in his his more explicit descriptions of how the polis citizens have consciously designed ‘outlooks’ to replace memes.
		Egan seems to be suggesting that memes have the capacity to insinuate themselves far deeper than we are aware, to the point where even science is still unwittingly conditioned by residual meme code buried deep in the structure of the human psyche.
	hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org /archives/007276.html (7675 words)

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