Greg Egan

""There are times when it's worth putting aside the endless myopic navel-gazing that occupies so much literature, in order to look out at the universe itself and value it for what it is.""

- Interview with Renai Lemay

An Australian author who puts the Hard Science back into Hard Science Fiction. Likes to show his work.

His novels are:


 * Quarantine - The solar system is locked in a bubble by aliens. People routinely use "neural implant" devices to rewire their brains.
 * Permutation City - Philosophical inquiry leads to the creation of a universe, simply by starting to simulate it and then turning the computer off.
 * Distress - Political intrigue surrounding the development of a Theory of Everything.
 * Diaspora - Faced with a natural disaster on a galactic scale, post-humans flee into another universe.
 * Teranesia - Through quantum computing, life becomes capable of mutating into the optimum form for its environment.
 * Schild's Ladder - Post-humans explore the interior of a sphere of total annihilation.
 * Incandescence - Pre-industrial aliens discover General Relativity because their world circles the black hole at the centre of the galaxy.
 * Zendegi - Simulations of human neural maps are used to add realism to a virtual world.
 * Orthogonal - Aliens in a universe with very strange physics build a Generation Ship in an attempt to avert disaster. A trilogy, consisting of:
 * The Clockwork Rocket
 * The Eternal Flame (forthcoming)
 * The Arrows of Time (forthcoming)

Common themes in his works include The Singularity, Transhumanism, atheism, regional politics, religion being the source of many problems, and non-standard sexual identities.