Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I’ve been led astray like that myself at times.
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Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.
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Birth: | 20th August, 1961 |
Nationality: | Australian |
Profession: | Novelist, Writer |
Greg Egan was born in Perth, Australia. He is an Australian science fiction novelist and writer. He earned a BS degree in Mathematics from the University of Western Australia. He specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness. He has written several novels include: An Unusual Angle, Quarantine, Permutation City, Distress, Diaspora, Orthogonal, Teranesia, Schild's Ladder, Incandescence, and Zendegi. He has written several short stories include: Blood Sisters, The Moral Virologist, Luminous, and Neighbourhood Watch.
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