Greg Egan Quotes

• Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

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• 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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• I’ve supported myself by writing since 1992, and I’m probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.

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• I’ve been taking longer to write stories lately.

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• I’m rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants.

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• I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.

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• I hadn’t given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you’re nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.

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• I don’t have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don’t.

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• I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.

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• Fandom is about fandom, it’s a great big social club.

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• Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

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• Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn’t only new ones who suffer from that.

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• Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it’s easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.

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• A story in Asimov’s is read by hundreds of thousands of people.

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Greg Egan (14)

Birth:	20th August, 1961
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

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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