Greg Egan

Born 20 August 1961

From Perth, Western Australia, Australia · Nationality: Australia

Australian science fiction writer

Quotes

“How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?” / “That depends.” / “On what?” / “On how I want to feel.”
Permutation City
“The truth is whatever you can get away with.” / “No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.”
Distress
“If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we’re standing right now, we’re going to trip and fall flat on our face, over and over again.”
Zendegi, Chapter 1
“[T]hat most beings would prefer to continue to exist once they exist is not in itself a good reason for bringing them into existence, it’s merely a good argument against murder.”
Other
“Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.”
Fiction

Books by Greg Egan in the order they were published, from An Unusual Angle (1983) to Dispersion (2020).