Greg Egan

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Greg Egan (born 20 August 1961)<ref name="SFE3"/> 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.<ref name=burnham>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

He published his first work in 1983.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref name=sfadb>Template:Sfadb</ref> 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.<ref name=":18">Template:Cite web</ref> A proof of the inequality also being necessary was published by Sergei Drozdov on 16 October 2023 on ArXiv.<ref name=":19">Template:Cite arXiv</ref>

In 2018, Egan described a construction of superpermutations, thus giving an upper bound to their minimum length. On 27 February 2019, using ideas developed by Robin Houston and others, Egan produced a superpermutation of seven symbols of length 5906, breaking previous records.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Personal life

As of 2015, Egan lives in Perth. He is a vegetarian<ref name=burnham/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and an atheist.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Egan does not attend science fiction conventions,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> does not sign books, and has stated that he appears in no photographs on the web,<ref name=egan>Template:Cite web</ref> though both SF fan sites and Google Search have at times mistakenly identified him as the subject of photos of other people with the same name.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Awards

Egan's work has won the Japanese Seiun Award for best translated fiction eight times.<ref name=sfadb/>

Teranesia was named the winner of the 2000 Ditmar Award for best novel, but Egan declined the award.<ref name=sfadb/>

Work Year & Award Category Result Ref.
"Scatter My Ashes" 1989 Ditmar Award Australian Short Fiction Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1989 Interzone Readers Poll Fiction Template:CFinalist <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
"The Cutie" 1990 Interzone Readers Poll Fiction Template:CFinalist <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Learning to Be Me" 1991 BSFA Award Short Fiction Template:Nominated <ref name=BSFA1991>Template:Cite web</ref>
1991 Interzone Readers Poll Fiction Template:Won <ref name=IZRP1991>Template:Cite web</ref>
1991 Locus Award Short Story Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus1991>Template:Cite web</ref>
1995 Hayakawa's S-F Magazine Reader's Award Foreign Short Story Template:Won <ref name=HSFMag>Template:Cite web</ref>
2007 Premio Ignotus Foreign Short Story Template:Won <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Axiomatic" 1991 BFSA Short Fiction Template:Nominated <ref name=BSFA1991 />
1991 Interzone Readers Poll Fiction Template:CFinalist <ref name=IZRP1991 />
1991 Locus Award Short Story Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus1991 />
1997 Premio Ignotus Foreign Story Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Eugene" 1991 Interzone Readers Poll Fiction Template:CFinalist <ref name=IZRP1991 />
"The Safe-Deposit Box" 1991 Asimov's Readers' Poll Novelette Template:CFinalist <ref name=ARP1991>Template:Cite web</ref>
1991 Locus Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus1991 />
"Appropriate Love" 1992 Interzone Readers Poll Fiction Template:CFinalist <ref name=IZRP1992>Template:Cite web</ref>
1999 Premio Ignotus Foreign Story Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
"The Caress" 1991 Ditmar Award Australian Short Fiction Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1991 Asimov's Readers' Poll Novelette Template:CFinalist <ref name=ARP1991 />
1991 Locus Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus1991 />
"Fidelity" 1992 Locus Award Short Story Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus1992>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Reification Highway" 1992 BFSA Short Fiction Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
"The Infinite Assassin" 1992 Interzone Readers Poll Fiction Template:Won <ref name=IZRP1992 />
2002 Premio Ignotus Foreign Story Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Blood Sisters" 1992 Locus Award Short Story Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus1992 />
1992 Interzone Readers Poll Fiction Template:CFinalist <ref name=IZRP1992 />
"Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies" 1993 Locus Award Short Story Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus1993>Template:Cite web</ref>
1993 Interzone Readers Poll Fiction Template:CFinalist <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Closer" 1993 Ditmar Award Short Fiction Template:Won <ref name=Ditmar1993>Template:Cite web</ref>
Quarantine 1993 Ditmar Award Long Fiction Template:Won <ref name=Ditmar1993 />
1994 Kurd Laßwitz Award Foreign Work Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2000 Premio Ignotus Foreign Novel Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2000 Seiun Award Translated Long Work Template:Nominated <ref name=Seiun2000>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Into Darkness" 1993 Asimov's Readers' Poll Novelette Template:CFinalist <ref name=ARP1993>Template:Cite web</ref>
1993 Locus Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus1993 />
"Dust" 1993 Asimov's Readers' Poll Novelette Template:CFinalist <ref name=ARP1993 />
1993 Locus Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus1993 />
1997 Premio Ignotus Foreign Story Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
"The Walk" 1993 Asimov's Readers' Poll Short Story Template:CFinalist <ref name=ARP1993 />
"Worthless" 1993 Ditmar Award Short Fiction Template:Nominated <ref name=Ditmar1993 />
"The Extra" 1994 Locus Award Short Story Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus1994>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Chaff" 1994 Locus Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus1994 />
1994 Interzone Readers Poll Fiction Template:CFinalist <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Cocoon" 1994 Otherwise Award Template:Sho
1995 Theodore Sturgeon Award Short Science Fiction Template:CFinalist <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1995 SF Chronicle Award Novelette Template:Won <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1995 Locus Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus1995>Template:Cite web</ref>
1995 Asimov's Readers' Poll Novelette Template:Won <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1995 Hugo Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Hugo1995>Template:Cite web</ref>
1995 Ditmar Award Australian Short Fiction Template:Won <ref name=Ditmar1995>Template:Cite web</ref>
Permutation City 1995 BSFA Award Novel Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1995 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Science Fiction Novel Template:Won
1995 Locus Award SF Novel Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus1995 />
1995 Ditmar Award Australian Long Fiction Template:Won <ref name=Ditmar1995 />
1996 Philip K. Dick Award Template:Nominated
1996 Kurd Laßwitz Award Foreign Work Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1999 Italia Awards International Novel Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1999 Premio Ignotus Foreign Novel Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2000 Seiun Award Translated Long Work Template:Nominated <ref name=Seiun2000 />
"Our Lady of Chernobyl" 1995 Interzone Readers Poll Fiction Template:CFinalist <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1995 Ditmar Award Australian Short Fiction Template:Nominated <ref name=Ditmar1995 />
1995 Locus Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus1995 />
"Luminous" 1995 Aurealis Award Science Fiction Short Story Template:Won
1996 SF Chronicle Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1996 Locus Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus1996>Template:Cite web</ref>
1996 Hugo Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Hugo1996>Template:Cite web</ref>
2003 Seiun Award Translated Short Story Template:Won <ref name=Seiun2003>Template:Cite web</ref>
2011 Premio Ignotus Foreign Short Story Template:Won <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Wang's Carpets" 1995 Aurealis Award Science Fiction Short Story Template:Nominated
1996 Locus Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus1996 />
1998 Hayakawa's S-F Magazine Reader's Award Foreign Short Story Template:Won <ref name=HSFMag />
Distress 1995 Aurealis Award Science Fiction Novel Template:Won
1997 Locus Award SF Novel Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2000 Kurd Laßwitz Award Foreign Work Template:Won
2001 Premio Ignotus Foreign Novel Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2005 Seiun Award Translated Long Work Template:Won <ref name=Seiun2005>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Mister Volition" 1995 Aurealis Award Science Fiction Short Story Template:Nominated
1995 BFSA Award Short Fiction Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1999 Premio Ignotus Foreign Story Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2003 Hayakawa's S-F Magazine Reader's Award Foreign Short Story Template:Won <ref name=HSFMag />
"TAP" 1996 Hugo Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Hugo1996 />
1996 Locus Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus1996 />
1996 Asimov's Readers' Poll Novelette Template:CFinalist <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Silver Fire" 1996 Interzone Readers Poll Fiction Template:CFinalist <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1996 Locus Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus1996 />
Axiomatic (Collection) 1996 Locus Award Collection Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus1996 />
2008 Grand prix de l'Imaginaire Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Our Lady of Chernobyl (Collection) 1996 Locus Award Collection Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus1996 />
1997 Grand prix de l'Imaginaire Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Transition Dreams 1997 Grand prix de l'Imaginaire Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Diaspora 1997 Aurealis Award Science Fiction Novel Template:Nominated
1998 Locus Award SF Novel Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus1998>Template:Cite web</ref>
2001 Kurd Laßwitz Award Foreign Work Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2006 Seiun Award Translated Long Work Template:Won <ref name=Seiun2006>Template:Cite web</ref>
2010 Premio Ignotus Foreign Novel Template:Won
"Reasons to Be Cheerful" 1997 Aurealis Award Science Fiction Short Story Template:Nominated
1998 Interzone Readers Poll Fiction Template:Won <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1998 Ditmar Award Short Fiction Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1998 Locus Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus1998 />
2002 Seiun Award Translated Short Story Template:Won <ref name=Seiun2002>Template:Cite web</ref>
2003 Premio Ignotus Foreign Story Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Orphanogenesis" 1998 Locus Award Short Story Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus1998 />
"Oceanic" 1998 Aurealis Award Science Fiction Short Story Template:Nominated
1998 HOmer Award Novella Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1999 Asimov's Readers' Poll Novella Template:Won <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1999 Locus Award Novella Template:Won <ref name=Locus1999>Template:Cite web</ref>
1999 Hugo Award Novella Template:Won <ref name=Hugo1999>Template:Cite web</ref>
2000 Hayakawa's S-F Magazine Reader's Award Foreign Short Story Template:Won
2001 Seiun Award Translated Short Story Template:Won <ref name=Seiun2001>Template:Cite web</ref>
2010 Grand prix de l'Imaginaire Foreign-language Short Fiction Template:Won
"The Planck Dive" 1998 HOmer Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1999 Locus Award Novelette Template:Won <ref name=Locus1999 />
1999 Theodore Sturgeon Award Short Science Fiction Template:CFinalist <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1999 Hugo Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Hugo1999 />
Luminous (Collection) 1999 Locus Award Collection Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus1999 />
Teranesia 1999 Aurealis Award Science Fiction Novel Template:Won
2000 Locus Award SF Novel Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus2000>Template:Cite web</ref>
2000 Ditmar Award Novel Template:Won <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2001 Gaylactic Spectrum Award Novel Template:Nominated
2002 Italia Awards International Novel Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2002 Kurd Laßwitz Award Foreign Work Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Border Guards" 2000 Hugo Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Hugo2000>Template:Cite web</ref>
2000 Locus Award Novelette Template:Won <ref name=Locus2000 />
2000 Interzone Readers Poll Fiction Template:CFinalist <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Oracle" 2001 Hugo Award Novella Template:Nominated <ref name=Hugo2001>Template:Cite web</ref>
2001 Asimov's Readers' Poll Novella Template:Won <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2001 Locus Award Novella Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus2001>Template:Cite web</ref>
2001 Gaylactic Spectrum Award Short Fiction Template:Nominated
"Singleton" 2002 BFSA Award Short Fiction Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2003 Locus Award Novella Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus2003>Template:Cite web</ref>
2003 Theodore Sturgeon Award Short Science Fiction Template:CFinalist <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Schild's Ladder 2003 Prometheus Award SF Novel Template:CFinalist <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2003 Locus Award SF Novel Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus2003 />
"Riding the Crocodile" 2007 Locus Award Novella Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus2007>Template:Cite web</ref>
"The Hundred Light-Year Diary" 2007 Premio Ignotus Foreign Story Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Dark Integers" 2008 Hugo Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Hugo2008>Template:Cite web</ref>
2008 Asimov's Readers' Poll Novelette Template:Won <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2008 Locus Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus2008>Template:Cite web</ref>
2010 Seiun Award Translated Short Story Template:Won <ref name=Seiun2010>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Glory" 2008 Hugo Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Hugo2008 />
2008 Locus Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus2008 />
"Crystal Nights" 2008 BFSA Award Short Fiction Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2009 Interzone Readers Poll Story Template:CFinalist <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2009 Locus Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus2009>Template:Cite web</ref>
2011 Seiun Award Translated Short Story Template:Nominated <ref name=Seiun2011>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Lost Continent" 2009 Locus Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus2009 />
Dark Integers and Other Stories 2009 Locus Award Collection Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus2009 />
Incandescence 2009 Locus Award SF Novel Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus2009 />
2011 Italia Awards International Novel Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2014 Seiun Award Translated Long Work Template:Nominated <ref name=Seiun2014>Template:Cite web</ref>
Oceanic (Collection) 2010 Locus Award Collection Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus2010>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Hot Rock" 2010 Locus Award Novella Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus2010 />
The Clockwork Rocket 2011 Goodreads Choice Awards Science Fiction Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2012 Locus Award SF Novel Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus2012>Template:Cite web</ref>
Zendegi 2011 Locus Award SF Novel Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus2011>Template:Cite web</ref>
2016 Seiun Award Translated Long Work Template:Nominated <ref name=Seiun2016>Template:Cite web</ref>
The Eternal Flame 2013 Locus Award SF Novel Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus2013>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Zero for Conduct" 2014 Locus Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus2014>Template:Cite web</ref>
The Arrows of Time 2014 Locus Award SF Novel Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus2014 />
"Seventh Sight" 2015 Locus Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus2015>Template:Cite web</ref>
2017 Seiun Award Translated Short Story Template:Nominated <ref name=Seiun2017>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Shadow Flock" 2015 Locus Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus2015 />
"The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred" 2016 Locus Award Novella Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus2016>Template:Cite web</ref>
2016 Theodore Sturgeon Award Short Science Fiction Template:CFinalist <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2016 Asimov's Readers' Poll Novella Template:CFinalist <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2017 Canopus Award Short-Form Fiction Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Uncanny Valley" 2017 BFSA Award Short Fiction Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2020 Seiun Award Translated Short Story Template:Won <ref name=Seiun2020>Template:Cite web</ref>
"The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine" 2018 Theodore Sturgeon Award Short Science Fiction Template:CFinalist <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2018 Asimov's Readers' Poll Novelette Template:CFinalist <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
"The Slipway" 2019 Analog Readers Poll Novelette Template:CFinalist <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
"3-adica" 2019 Asimov's Readers' Poll Novella Template:CFinalist <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
The Best of Greg Egan 2020 Locus Award Collection Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus2020>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Bit Players" 2020 Seiun Award Translated Short Story Template:Nominated <ref name=Seiun2000 />
"This is Not The Way Home" 2021 Seiun Award Translated Short Story Template:Nominated <ref name=Seiun2021>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Light Up the Clouds" 2022 Asimov's Readers' Poll Novella Template:CFinalist <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Didicosm" 2023 Analog Readers Poll Novelette Template:CFinalist <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Solidity" 2023 Asimov's Readers' Poll Novelette Template:CFinalist <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2023 Locus Award Novelette Template:Nominated <ref name=Locus2023>Template:Cite web</ref>
2024 Seiun Award Translated Short Story Template:Won <ref name=Seiun2024>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Crisis Actors" 2025 Seiun Awards Translated Short Story Template:Nominated <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Works

Novels

Orthogonal trilogy

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Axiomatic (1995), Template:ISBN Template:Columns-list

Our Lady of Chernobyl (1995), Template:ISBN

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Luminous (1998), Template:ISBN

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Dark Integers and Other Stories (2008), Template:ISBN

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Crystal Nights and Other Stories (2009), Template:ISBN

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Oceanic (2009), Template:ISBN

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The Best of Greg Egan (2019), Template:ISBN

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Instantiation (2020), Template:ISBN

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Sleep and the Soul (2023), Template:ISBN

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Phoresis and Other Journeys (2023), Template:ISBN

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Other short fiction

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Excerpted

Academic papers

Short movies

The production of a short film inspired by the story "Axiomatic" commenced in 2015,<ref>Template:IMDb title</ref> and the film was released online in October 2017.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Notes

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