Greg Egan - Greg Egan Greg Egan (born August 20, 1961) is an Australian (Perth-based) computer programmer and science fiction author. He has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Western Australia. Egan specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and metaphysical themes, including the nature of consciousness. Other themes include genetics, simulated reality, mind transfer and sentient software. Some of his earlier short stories feature strong elements of supernatural horror. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Works 1.1 Novels 1.2 Collections 1.3 Stories 2 Awards 3 External resources Works Novels Schild's Ladder (2002) Teranesia (1999) Diaspora (1997) Distress (1995) Permutation City (1994) Quarantine (1992) An Unusual Angle (1983) Collections Oceanic and Other Stories Luminous (1998) Our Lady of Chernobyl Axiomatic (1995) Stories 'Singleton' 'Oracle' 'Only.
Journalist - with consideration for truth and ethics. This expectation is not always met, as journalists may publicly or privately take sides, but this is not taken lightly when revealed. 19th century journalists William Cowper Brann (1855-1898) - colorful editor of the Iconcolast in Waco, Texas. Nellie Bly Samuel Taylor Coleridge - political essays, poetry, and reportage Charles Dickens (1812-1870) - started as a shorthand writer logging debates in the courts and Houses of Parliament before becoming a Parliamentary journalist Pierce Egan (1772-1849) - early sportswriter and reporter on popular culture Jacob Riis (1849-1914) - journalist and slum reformer 20th century print journalists Rhett Baker (1950-2003) - Buffalo Housing committee recording of hearing of Daniel Patrick Moynihan 1999 / Buffalo, N.Y. Ben Bradlee, editor of the Washington Post at the time of the.
Hard science fiction - at least potentially realistic. Hard science fiction is largely a literary genre, as the complexities of physics rarely translate well to the screen. One of the notable exceptions is 2001: A Space Odyssey, however the movie still leaves out much of the examination of the physics, computer science, and other scientific analyses present in the novel version. Well known authors often said to be practitioners of hard SF, include Poul Anderson Isaac Asimov Iain M. Banks Stephen Baxter Greg Bear Gregory Benford David Brin Arthur C. Clarke Hal Clement Greg Egan Robert Forward Robert Heinlein Nancy Kress Julian May Larry Niven Paul Preuss Kim Stanley Robinson Jules Verne See the article on Hal Clement for a description of how one hard science fiction author viewed his craft. One science-fiction television show.
Hackers (short stories) - to help him. "Spirit of the Night" This story was written by Tom Maddox, and was first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1987. This is the story of a man whose wife is kidnapped during a business dealing about bio computers. The man then finds out that his wife's electronic records have disappeared. Bound by his wife's love, he plunges back to his hacker days to track his wife's abductor, and even enlists the help of his old college hacking master. Thinking originally that it was the company involved in the business deal, he blackmails them, but then finds out that something else may be behind the ordeal. "Blood Sisters" This story was written by Greg Egan, and was first published in Interzone 44 in 1991. Two twin.
Hugo Award for Best Novella - Silverberg 1988: "Eye for Eye" by Orson Scott Card 1989: "The Last of the Winnebagos" by Connie Willis 1990: "The Mountains of Mourning" by Lois McMaster Bujold 1991: "The Hemingway Hoax" by Joe Halderman 1992: "Beggard in Spain" by Nancy Kress 1993: "Barnacle Bill the Spacer" by Lucius Shepard 1994: "Down in the Bottomland" by Harry Turtledove 1995: "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" by Mike Resnick 1996: "The Death of Captan Future" by Allen Steele 1997: "Blood of the Dragon" by George R.R. Martin 1998: "... Where Angels Fear To Tread" by Allen Steele 1999: "Oceanic" by Greg Egan 2000: "The Winds of Marble Arch" by Connie Willis 2001: "The Ultimate Earth" by [[Jack Williamson 2002: "Fast Times at Fairmont High" by Vernor Vinge 2003: "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman See also.
Diaspora (novel) - a 1997 science fiction novel by Australian writer Greg Egan. Warning: Spoilers follow In Diaspora, most human beings have uploaded into virtual reality-based communities, called polises (Greek for city), where they live as virtual beings. An unprecedented range of possibilities and experiences then opens to humanity, free from the constraints of the physical world. The novel makes a good job of depicting what would be an (astounding, for us) day-to-day life in such an environment. The novel title derives from the main quest that one of the polises, Carter-Zimmerman, begins in the physical world (much to the amusement of the other polises), to find the reason for a paradoxical acceleration of a cosmic event that threatens to wipe out the remaining body-bound humans ("fleshers") on earth, in the process discovering a.
1961 in literature - the Dead - John le Carré The Carpetbaggers - Harold Robbins Catch-22 - Joseph Heller Daughter of Silence - Morris West Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger A House for Mr. Biswas - V. S. Naipaul Mila 18 - Leon Uris The Moviegoer - Walker Percy A Passion in Rome - Morley Callaghan The Pawnbroker - Edward Lewis Wallant The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch The Stone Angel - Margaret Laurence Thunderball - Ian Fleming 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty - Pat Boone Venusberg - Anthony Powell The Wall - John Hersey The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck Zima Junction - Yevegeny Yevtushenko Births December 30 - Douglas Coupland, author Greg Egan, author Deaths January.
Asexuality - to become a nun or priest. See also celibacy. This idea that asexuality is the higher way is sometimes referred to as asexism. In other creeds, children may be considered a gift of God that should not be refused, and/or a means of spreading religion. In fiction, John Braine's novel The Jealous God (1964) is a good example of sex mainly seen as a sin. On the other hand, in his science fiction novel Distress (1995), Greg Egan imagines a world where "asex" is one out of five or seven acknowledged gender settings. Asexuality is not to be confused with asexual reproduction. See also: heteronormativity.
Axiomatic - a 1995 collection of short science fiction stories by Greg Egan. Axiomatic contains the following short stories. The Infinite Assassin The Hundred-Light-Year-Diary Eugene The Caress Blood Sisters Axiomatic The Safe-Deposit Box Seeing A Kidnapping Learning To Be Me The Moat The Walk The Cutie Into Darkness Appropriate Love The Moral Virologist Closer Unsuitable Orbits In The Space Of Lies The stories are difficult to summarize, and an amazon.co.uk review explains part of the reason why: "Egan delivers shocking body-blows to received ideas in thought-experiment stories that like Jorge Luis Borges's philosophical squibs are booby-trapped with terrible truths and paradoxes." The Guardian sums it up more neatly: "Wonderful mind-expanding stuff, and well-written too." ISBN 0752816500.
Teranesia - Teranesia Teranesia is a novel by Greg Egan. It is Egan's most character-driven novel to date. The novel's single hard science element deals with molecular genetics and quantum computing. However, most of the novel focuses on south-east Asian politics, repressed childhood guilt, evolutionary biology and academic life. There is some focus on sexuality: this time the lead character is merely gay (rather than some of the more advanced alternatives in other novels). One of the most memorable passages is a savage lampoon of some of the excesses of postmodernism..
Blood Music - Blood Music is a science fiction novel by Greg Bear (ISBN 0743444965). It was originally published as a short story in 1983, winning the 1983 Nebula Award for best novelette and the 1984 Hugo Award in the same category. Greg Bear published an expanded version in novel form in 1985. It deals with themes including biotechnology, nanotechnology (including the grey goo hypothesis), the nature of consciousness and of artificial intelligence. Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers. In the novel, renegade biotechnologist Vergil Ulam creates simple biological computers based on his own lymphocytes. Faced with orders from his nervous employer to destroy these, he injects them into his own body. There the lymphocytes multiply and evolve rapidly, altering their own genetic material and quickly becoming self-aware. The nanoscale civilisation they construct soon begins to.
Campbell award (best novel) - Gregory Benford 1982 - Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban 1983 - Helliconia Spring, Brian W. Aldiss 1984 - The Citadel of the Autarch, Gene Wolfe 1985 - The Years of the City, Frederik Pohl 1986 - The Postman, David Brin 1987 - A Door into Ocean, Joan Slonczewski 1988 - Lincoln's Dreams, Connie Willis 1989 - Islands in the Net, Bruce Sterling 1990 - The Child Garden, Geoff Ryman 1991 - Pacific Edge, Kim Stanley Robinson 1992 - Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede, Bradley Denton 1993 - Brother to Dragons, Charles Sheffield 1994 - No award 1995 - Permutation City, Greg Egan 1996 - The Time Ships, Stephen Baxter 1997 - Fairyland, Paul McAuley 1998 - Forever Peace, Joe Haldeman 1999 - Brute Orbits, George Zebrowski 2000 - A.
Schild's Ladder - 006107344X) is a 2002 science fiction novel by Greg Egan. Warning: Spoilers follow This novel is perhaps the hardest ever published by Egan, filled with non-trivial mathematics and physics. A two-millimiter high physicist, Cass, starts an experiment that inadvertantly creates a bubble of - it seems - void, expanding at half the speed of light. But, inside this bubble, Egan's usual topics of simulation and virtual reality are taken to the extreme when we learn that life is thriving inside this zone of apparent destruction; sustained not on physical particles, but on constantly changing laws of physics that provide a framework for intelligent beings to exist..
Sie and hir - said they pronounced it roughly like her h3:. Hirs and Hirself - extended from hir in the way you'd expect: adding an "s" or self sound onto the end. Of course, this can vary depending on how you choose to pronounce hir. Problems with 'sie' and 'hir' These are some of the arguments some people make against these pronouns: There are existing solutions, such as singular they, that render neologisms unnecessary. sie and hir are ugly and cumbersome. The variation in pronunciation and the similarity to the corresponding female pronouns and other words could cause confusion. sie and hir have a female bias, because they sound similar to the corresponding female pronouns. (Historically this was an asset: the initial uptake was probably helped by irritation at the use of male pronouns.
Quarantine - the case of people, quarantine usually raises questions of civil rights, especially in cases of long confinement or segregation from society, such as that of Mary Mallon, a typhoid fever carrier. 2. Quarantine is a science fiction novel by Greg Egan..
Quantum evolution - the system to "decide" which mutations are more useful. Protein formation occurs at a rate of on the order of 10,000 times a second (10-5 seconds per protein formed). Although some have, by analogy to the technique of NMR imaging, posed state coherence times as long as half a second, (see Johnjoe McFadden's book "Quantum Evolution", [1]), this analysis has been challenged (see Mathew Donald, A Review of "Quantum Evolution", [1]) and coherence times on the order of 10-13 seconds seems to be a much more realistic outcome. This latter time would be far too short by many orders of magnitude for the protein formation required for a superposition of quantum states to affect mutations. If the theory of quantum evolution were indeed true, one could further speculate that a similar,.
Quarantine (novel) - (novel) Quarantine is a science fiction novel by Greg Egan. Within a detective fiction framework, the novel explores the consequences of one particular interpretation of quantum mechanics (albeit one that the author has acknowledged was chosen more for its entertainment value than for its likelihood of being correct). The novel is set in the near future (2034-2060 AD), after the solar system has been surrounded by an impenetrable shield called the bubble. The bubble permits no light to enter the solar system and as a consequence the stars can no longer be seen. The central premise of the novel is that the bubble has been constructed by aliens to prevent humanity from wreaking massive destruction on the rest of the universe. Disdaining the use of more ordinary threats, Greg Egan claims.
Permutation City - Permutation City is a science fiction novel by Greg Egan that explores various philosophical aspects of artificial life and simulations of intelligence. It won the John W. Campbell Award for the best science-fiction novel of the year in 1995 and was cited in a 2003 Scientific American article on multiverses. Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers. Permutation City asks many of the same kinds of philosophical questions as The Matrix, Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell -- does anything differentiate a perfect computer simulation of a person from a "real" one? -- but its textual nature allows it to push the ideas further. Egan gleefully deconstructs and undermines traditional notions of self, future, personality, and even physical reality. A loose sequel, Diaspora was published in 1997. Its ISBN number is ISBN 1-85798-218-5..
Philip K. Dick Memorial Award - Take Back Plenty Elizabeth Hand Aestival Tide R. A. Lafferty Iron Tears 1993 John M. Ford Growing Up Weightless Jack Womack Elvissey Wilhelmina Baird Crash Course David R. Bunch Bunch Elizabeth Hand Icarus Descending 1994 Robert Charles Wilson Mysterium Jack Cady Inagehi Alexander Besher Rim: A Novel of Virtual Reality Ian McDonald ''Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone Lisa Mason Summer of Love Lance Olsen Tonguing the Zeitgeist 1995 Bruce Bethke Headcrash Richard Paul Russo Carlucci's Edge Shale Aaron Virtual Death Greg Egan Permutation City Amy Thomson The Color of Distance Élisabeth Vonarburg Reluctant Voyagers 1996 Stephen Baxter The Time Ships Michael Bishop At the City Limits of Fate William Barton The Transmigration of Souls George Foy The Shift Sarah Zettel Reclamation 1997 Stepan Chapman The Troika William Barton Acts of Conscience.
Postcyberpunk - The Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon Bruce Sterling's Islands in the Net and Holy Fire Ken MacLeod's The Star Fraction and The Stone Canal Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom The validity of the postcyberpunk label is suggested by the fact that it has been taken up by some of the authors it has been applied to. However, there are many works which explore postcyberpunk themes in a dystopian way - e.g. Paul McAuley's Fairyland. Some authors are hard to classify. For example, Greg Egan's work is arguably so inventive as to defy classification into a "movement" or "sub-genre". See also: Transhumanism.
