Greg Egan (born August 20, 1961) is an Australian (Perth-based) computer programmer and science fiction author. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree 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, sexuality and artificial intelligence. 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, one of the three major annual awards for science fiction. Some of his earlier short 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.

His 1994 novel Permutation City was a highly praised exploration of the copying of human personalities or minds. The protagonist challenges his society's understanding (and the reader's) of 'copies', and of identity, computing, the laws of physics and reality.

Works

Novels

• An Unusual Angle (1983)
• Quarantine (1992)
• Permutation City (1994)
• Distress (1995)
• Diaspora (1997)
• Teranesia (1999)
• Schild's Ladder (2002)

Collections

• Axiomatic (1995)
• Our Lady of Chernobyl (1995)
• Luminous (1998)
• Oceanic and Other Stories

Stories

• 'Singleton'
• 'Oracle'
• 'Only Connect'
• 'Border Guards'
• 'Oceanic'
• 'The Planck Dive' (L)
• 'Yeyuka'
• 'Reasons to Be Cheerful' (L)
• 'Silver Fire' (L)
• 'TAP'
• 'Mister Volition' (L)
• 'Luminous' (L)
• 'Wang's Carpets'
• 'A Kidnapping' (A)
• 'Seeing' (A)
• 'Mitochondrial Eve' (L)
• 'Cocoon' (L)
• 'Our Lady of Chernobyl' (L)
• 'Chaff' (L)
• 'Transition Dreams' (L)
• 'The Walk' (A)
• 'Reification Highway'
• 'Closer' (A)
• 'Worthless'
• 'Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies' (A)
• 'Dust'
• 'Before'
• 'The Hundred Light-Year Diary' (A)
• 'Into Darkness' (A)
• 'Fidelity'
• 'Appropriate Love' (A)
• 'The Demon's Passage'
• 'The Infinite Assassin' (A)
• 'The Moat' (A)
• 'In Numbers'
• "Blood Sisters" (1991) (A)
• 'The Vat'
• 'The Moral Virologist' (A)
• 'Axiomatic' (A)
• 'The Extra'
• 'The Safe-Deposit Box' (A)
• 'Learning to Be Me' (A)
• 'Eugene' (A)
• 'The Caress' (A)
• 'Beyond the Whistle Test'
• 'The Cutie' (A)
• 'Scatter My Ashes'
• 'Neighbourhood Watch'
• 'Mind Vampires'
• 'Tangled Up'
• 'The Way She Smiles, The Things She Says'
• 'Artifact'
• 'Orphanogenesis'

Awards

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

External links

• Open Directory category: Greg Egan
• Greg Egan's homepage