Greg Egan

Greg Egan ( born August 20, 1961 in Perth, Australia) is an Australian fantasy and science fiction writer. Earlier in his career he wrote mainly fantasy short stories, turned later, however, more and more of science fiction, where he put an emphasis on biology. He is a locus and Kurd - Laßwitz Prize winner.

Life

Greg Egan was born on 20 August 1961 in Perth, Australia. He studied mathematics at the University of Western Australia and received a Bachelor of Science herein. Until 1992, he worked full time as a programmer. In 1983 he published his first novel, An Unusual Angle, who is regarded by him as a youthful indiscretion. Since his literary breakthrough in 1991 with Quarantine ( quarantine dt ), he works full time as an author.

Work

Many of Egan's novels and short stories deal with complex scientific relationships of a not very distant future. Typical topics are virtual worlds, artificial intelligence or biotechnological changes, especially of man. Egan here shows an above-average writer for expertise in many scientific disciplines. A recurring motif in his novels is the transfer of human consciousness from a biological body into a computer where it can continue its existence in time in a virtual reality indefinitely, the possible consequences for the individual are discussed. Egan is among the authors who deal strongly with the post-humanism.

Egan's works have won numerous awards, including the 1998 Hugo Award for his novella Oceanic ( Oceanic ) and 2000 with the Kurd - Laßwitz Prize for the novel Distress ( torment ). Greg Egan has been very successful, particularly in Australia and Japan.

Novels

  • An Unusual Angle, 1983
  • Quarantine, 1992
  • Permutation City, 1994
  • Distress, 1995
  • Diaspora, 1997
  • Teranesia, 1999
  • Shield 's Ladder, 2002
  • Incandescence, 2008
  • Zendegi, 2010
  • The Clockwork Rocket, 2011

Short story collections

  • Axiomatic, 1995
  • Our Lady of Chernobyl, 1995
  • Luminous, 1998
  • Dark Integers and Other Stories, 2008
  • Crystal Nights and Other Stories, 2009
  • Oceanic, 2009

Short stories

  • Artifact, 1983
  • The Way She Smiles, The Things She Says, 1985
  • Tangled Up in 1985
  • Mind Vampires, 1986/87
  • Neighbourhood Watch, 1986/87
  • Scatter My Ashes, 1988
  • The Cutie, 1989
  • Beyond the Whistle Test, 1989
  • The Caress, 1990 ( The Caress )
  • Eugene, 1990
  • Learning to Be Me, 1990 ( The others in my head)
  • The Extra, 1990
  • Axiomatic, 1990 ( Axiomatic )
  • The Moral Virologist, 1990
  • The Vat, 1990
  • Blood Sisters, 1991 ( Blood sisters)
  • In Numbers, 1991
  • The Moat, 1991
  • The Infinite Assassin, 1991
  • The Demon 's Passage, 1991
  • Appropriate Love, 1991 ( True Love )
  • Fidelity, 1991
  • Into Darkness, 1992
  • The Hundred Light- Year Diary, 1992
  • Before 1992
  • Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies, 1992
  • Worthless, 1992
  • Closer, 1992
  • Reification Highway, 1992 ( Vergegenständlichungstour )
  • The Walk, 1992
  • Transition Dreams, 1993
  • Chaff, 1993
  • Our Lady of Chernobyl, 1994
  • Cocoon, 1994
  • Mitochondrial Eve, 1995
  • Seeing, 1995
  • A Kidnapping, 1995
  • Wang's Carpets, 1995
  • Luminous, 1995 ( Lichtenborn )
  • Mister Volition, 1995
  • TAP, 1995
  • Silver Fire, 1995
  • Reasons to Be Cheerful, 1997 ( Reasons to be cheerful )
  • Yeyuka, 1997
  • The Planck Dive, 1998 ( The Planck jump)
  • Oceanic, 1998 ( Oceanic )
  • Border Guards, 1999
  • Only Connect, 2000
  • Oracle, 2000 ( oracle )
  • Singleton, 2002
  • Riding the Crocodile, 2005

Prices

  • Locus Award
  • Hugo Award
  • Campbell Memorial Award
  • Kurd - Laßwitz price
  • 2000 in the category of international novel for torture
  • Ditmar Award
  • Aurealis Award
  • Seiun Award
  • In 2001 for his short story Oceanic
  • 2002 for his anthology Reasons to be Cheerful
  • In 2003 for his short story Luminous
  • In 2005 for his novel torment
  • In 2006 for his novel Diaspora
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