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Greg Egan


Born
in Perth, Australia
August 20, 1961

Website

Genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy


Greg Egan 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 transfer, sexuality, artificial intelligence, and the superiority of rational naturalism 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, while due to his more popular science fiction he is known within the genre for his tendency to deal with complex and highly technical material (including inventive new physics and epistemology) in an un ...more

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Google: Still Stupid

After four years of development, Google's "Knowledge Graph" is still clueless.
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Average rating: 3.94 · 76,139 ratings · 7,515 reviews · 265 distinct works • Similar authors
Permutation City
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Incandescence
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“Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.”
― Greg Egan, Oceanic
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“Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to ‘conquer’ Earth, to steal their ‘precious’ physical resources, to wipe them out for fear of ‘competition’…as if a species capable of making the journey wouldn’t have had the power, or the wit, or the imagination, to rid itself of obsolete biological imperatives. Conquering the Galaxy is what bacteria with spaceships would do – knowing no better, having no choice.”
― Greg Egan
tags: biology, sci-fi, science, science-fiction, space-exploration
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“Death never gave meaning to life: it was always the other way round.”
― Greg Egan, Oceanic
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Polls

September 2022 New School Classic Group Read

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay, 1967, 189 pages
 
  58 votes, 30.1%

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924, 226 pages
 
  40 votes, 20.7%

 
  30 votes, 15.5%

I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki, 1905, 480 pages
 
  30 votes, 15.5%

 
  13 votes, 6.7%

Permutation City by Greg Egan, 1994, 352 pages
 
  12 votes, 6.2%

Alberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel, 1926, 247 pages
 
  10 votes, 5.2%

193 total votes
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