Greg Egan (born 20 August 1961) is an Australian science fiction writer. Read full biography of Greg Egan →
Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.
A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people.
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... →
I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.
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... →
Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club.
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... →
I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.
I've been taking longer to write stories lately.
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... →
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... →
Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our... →
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... →