Editing Greg Egan

{{Short description|Australian science fiction author and mathematician}}
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| birth_place = Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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| period      = 1983–present (as a science fiction writer)
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'''Greg Egan''' (born 20 August 1961)<ref name="SFE3"/> is an Australian [[science fiction]] writer and [[mathematician]], best known for his works of [[hard science fiction]]. Egan has won multiple awards including the [[John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel|John W. Campbell Memorial Award]], the [[Hugo Award]], and the [[Locus Award]].

==Life and work==
Egan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the [[University of Western Australia]].<ref name=burnham>{{cite book|last1=Burnham|first1=Karen|isbn=978-0-252-07993-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lPAwAwAAQBAJ&q=greg+egan+Bachelor+of+Science+degree+in+Mathematics&pg=PA1|access-date=1 December 2015|title=Greg Egan|date=30 April 2014|publisher=University of Illinois Press }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Booker|first1=M. Keith|title=Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction in Literature|isbn=978-0810849389|page=98|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WRi7BAAAQBAJ&q=greg+egan+Bachelor+of+Science+degree+in+Mathematics&pg=PA98|access-date=1 December 2015|date=1 October 2014|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.student.uwa.edu.au/course/award-verification-service?family=Egan&given=Greg&given_partial=on&search=Search|title=UWA Award Verification Service|access-date=19 March 2018}}</ref>

He published his first work in 1983.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gregegan.net/BIBLIOGRAPHY/Bibliography.html |title=Bibliography |publisher=Gregegan.net |date=7 August 2014 |access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref> He specialises in [[hard science fiction]] stories with [[mathematics|mathematical]] and [[quantum ontology]] themes, including the nature of [[consciousness]]. Other themes include [[genetics]], [[simulated reality]], [[posthuman]]ism, [[mind uploading]], [[Human sexuality|sexuality]], [[artificial intelligence]], and the superiority of [[Rationalism|rational]] [[Metaphysical naturalism|naturalism]] to [[religion]]. He often deals with complex technical material, like new physics and [[epistemology]]. He is a [[Hugo Award]] winner (with eight other works shortlisted for the Hugos) and has also won the [[John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel]].<ref name=sfadb>{{sfadb|Greg_Egan}}</ref> His early stories feature strong elements of [[horror fiction|supernatural horror]].

Egan's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including regular appearances in ''[[Interzone (magazine)|Interzone]]'' and ''[[Asimov's Science Fiction]]''.

===Mathematics===
In 2002, Egan co-authored two papers about Riemannian 10j symbols, [[spin network]]s appearing in Riemannian [[quantum gravity]], together with [[John C. Baez|John Baez]] and Dan Christensen. Spin networks also play a central role in his novel ''[[Schild's Ladder]]'' released the same year.

In 2014, Egan conjectured a generalization of the [[Grace–Danielsson inequality]] about the relation of the [[Radius|radii]] of two [[sphere]]s and the distance of their respective centres to fit a [[simplex]] between them to also hold in higher [[dimension]]s, which later became known as the [[Egan conjecture]]. A proof of the inequality being sufficient was published by him in 2014 under a blog post of [[John C. Baez|John Baez]]. They were lost due to a rearrangement of the website, but the central parts were copied into the original blog post. Further comments by Greg Egan on 16 April 2018 concern the search for a generalized conjecture involving [[ellipsoid]]s.<ref name=":18">{{cite web|access-date=2023-11-22|author=John Baez|date=2014-07-01|language=en|title=Grace–Danielsson Inequality|url=https://blogs.ams.org/visualinsight/2014/06/01/grace-danielsson-inequality/}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> A proof of the inequality also being necessary was published by Sergei Drozdov on 16 October 2023 on [[ArXiv]].<ref name=":19">{{cite arXiv|author=Sergei Drozdov|language=en|title=Egan conjecture holds|date=2023 |class=math.MG |eprint=2310.10816 }}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>

In 2018, Egan described a construction of [[superpermutation]]s, thus giving an upper bound to their minimum length. On 27 February 2019, using ideas developed by Robin Houston and others, Egan produced a superpermutation of seven symbols of length 5906, breaking previous records.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Egan |first1=Greg |title=Superpermutations |url=https://www.gregegan.net/SCIENCE/Superpermutations/Superpermutations.html |access-date=2 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Klarreich |first1=Erica |title=Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem |url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/sci-fi-writer-greg-egan-and-anonymous-math-whiz-advance-permutation-problem-20181105/ |website=[[Quanta Magazine]] |date=5 November 2018 |access-date=13 May 2019}}</ref>

==Personal life==
As of 2015, Egan lives in Perth. He is a [[Vegetarianism|vegetarian]]<ref name=burnham/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gregegan.net/ZENDEGI/IranTrip/IranTrip2.html |title=Iran Trip Diary: Part 2, Esfahan |last=Egan |first=Greg |publisher=Gregegan.net |date=19 October 2008 |access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref> and an atheist.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Egan |first1=Greg |editor1-last=Blackford |editor1-first=Russell |editor2-last=Schüklenk |editor2-first=Udo |title=50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists |date=2009 |publisher=Wiley–Blackwell |location=Sussex |chapter-url=https://www.gregegan.net/ESSAYS/BAB/BAB.html |chapter=Born Again, Briefly}}</ref>

Egan does not attend science fiction conventions,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gregegan.net/INTERVIEWS/Interviews.html |title=Interviews |first=Russell |last=Farr |publisher=Gregegan.net |date=September 1997 |access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref> does not sign books, and has stated that he appears in no photographs on the web,<ref name=egan>{{cite web|url=https://www.gregegan.net/images/GregEgan.htm |title=Photos of Greg Egan, science fiction writer |publisher=Gregegan.net |access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref> though both SF fan sites and [[Google Search]] have at times mistakenly identified him as the subject of photos of other people with the same name.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gregegan.net/ESSAYS/GOOGLE/Google.html |title=Google, the Stupidity Amplifier |last=Egan |first=Greg |publisher=Gregegan.net |date=24 August 2012 |access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref>

==Awards==
* ''[[Permutation City]]'': [[John W. Campbell Memorial Award]] (1995)<ref name=sfadb/>
* ''[[Oceanic (story)|Oceanic]]'': [[Hugo Award]], [[Locus Award]], Asimov's Readers' Award (1999)<ref name=sfadb/>
* ''[[Distress (novel)|Distress]]'': [[Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis]] as Best Foreign Fiction (2000)

Egan's work has won the Japanese [[Seiun Award]] for best translated fiction eight times.<ref name=sfadb/>

''[[Teranesia]]'' was named the winner of the 2000 [[Ditmar Award]] for best novel, but Egan declined the award.<ref name=sfadb/>

==Works==
===Novels===
* ''[[An Unusual Angle]]'' (1983), {{ISBN|0-909106-12-6}}
* ''[[Quarantine (Greg Egan novel)|Quarantine]]'' (1992), {{ISBN|0-7126-9870-1}}
* ''[[Permutation City]]'' (1994), {{ISBN|1-85798-174-X}}
* ''[[Distress (novel)|Distress]]'' (1995), {{ISBN|1-85798-286-X}}
* ''[[Diaspora (novel)|Diaspora]]'' (1997), {{ISBN|1-85798-438-2}}
* ''[[Teranesia]]'' (1999), {{ISBN|0-575-06854-X}}
* ''[[Schild's Ladder]]'' (2002), {{ISBN|0-575-07068-4}}
* ''[[Incandescence (novel)|Incandescence]]'' (2008), {{ISBN|978-1-59780-128-7}}
* ''[[Zendegi]]'' (2010), {{ISBN|978-1-59780-174-4}}
* ''[[Dichronauts]]'' (2017), {{ISBN|978-1597808927}}
* ''[[Perihelion Summer]]'' (2019), {{ISBN|978-1-250-31378-2}}
* ''[[The Book of All Skies]]'' (2021), {{ISBN|978-1-922240-38-5}}
* ''[[Scale (novel)|Scale]]'' (2023), {{ISBN|978-1-922240-44-6}}
* ''Morphotrophic'' (2024), {{ISBN|978-1-922240-51-4}}

====Orthogonal trilogy====
{{main|Orthogonal (series)}}
* ''[[The Clockwork Rocket]]'' (2011), {{ISBN|978-1-59780-227-7}}
* ''[[The Eternal Flame (novel)|The Eternal Flame]]'' (2012), {{ISBN|978-1-59780-293-2}}
* ''[[The Arrows of Time]]'' (2013), {{ISBN|978-0-575-10576-8}}

===Collections===
'''[[Axiomatic (story collection)|Axiomatic]]''' (1995), {{ISBN|1-85798-281-9}}
{{columns-list|colwidth=22em|
* ''The Infinite Assassin'' (1991)
* ''[[The Hundred Light-Year Diary]]'' (1992)
* ''[[Eugene (short story)|Eugene]]'' (1990)
* ''The Caress'' (1990)
* ''[[Hackers (short stories)#"Blood Sisters"|Blood Sisters]]'' (1991)
* ''[[Axiomatic (short story)|Axiomatic]]'' (1990)
* ''[[The Safe-Deposit Box]]'' (1990)
* ''Seeing'' (1995)
* ''[[A Kidnapping]]'' (1995)
* ''[[Learning to Be Me]]'' (1990)
* ''The Moat'' (1991)
* ''[[The Walk (short story)|The Walk]]'' (1992)
* ''[[The Cutie]]'' (1989)
* ''[[Into Darkness (novelette)|Into Darkness]]'' (1992)
* ''[[Appropriate Love]]'' (1991)
* ''[[The Moral Virologist]]'' (1990)
* ''Closer'' (1992)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://eidolon.net/?story=Closer |title=Closer |last=Egan |first=Greg |publisher=eidolon.net |date=April 1992 |access-date=23 August 2014 |archive-date=26 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226163332/http://eidolon.net/?story=Closer |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* ''[[Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies]]'' (1992)
}}

'''[[Our Lady of Chernobyl]]''' (1995), {{ISBN|0-646-23230-4}}

{{columns-list|colwidth=22em|
* ''[[Chaff (novelette)|Chaff]]'' (1993)
* ''Beyond the Whistle Test'' (1989)
* ''[[Transition Dreams]]'' (1993)
* ''Our Lady of Chernobyl'' (1994)
}}

'''[[Luminous (story collection)|Luminous]]''' (1998), {{ISBN|1-85798-551-6}}

{{columns-list|colwidth=22em|
* ''[[Chaff (novelette)|Chaff]]'' (1993)
* ''[[Mitochondrial Eve (novelette)|Mitochondrial Eve]]'' (1995)
* ''[[Luminous (short story)|Luminous]]'' (1995)
* ''Mister Volition'' (1995)
* ''Cocoon'' (1994)
* ''Transition Dreams'' (1993)
* ''[[Silver Fire (novelette)|Silver Fire]]'' (1995)
* ''[[Reasons to Be Cheerful (short story)|Reasons to Be Cheerful]]'' (1997)
* ''Our Lady of Chernobyl'' (1994)
* ''[[The Planck Dive]]'' (1998)
}}

'''[[Dark Integers and Other Stories]]''' (2008), {{ISBN|978-1-59606-155-2}}

{{columns-list|colwidth=22em|
* ''[[Luminous (short story)|Luminous]]'' (1995)
* ''[[Riding the Crocodile]]'' (2005)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gregegan.net/INCANDESCENCE/00/Crocodile.html |title=Riding the Crocodile |last=Egan |first=Greg |publisher=Gregegan.net |date=31 December 2006 |access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref>
* ''[[Dark Integers]]'' (2007)<ref>{{cite web |last=Egan |first=Greg |url=https://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0710/Dark.shtml |title=Dark Integers |publisher=Asimovs.com |date=October 2007 |access-date=23 August 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402183032/http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0710/Dark.shtml |archive-date=2 April 2015  }}</ref>
* ''[[Glory (novelette)|Glory]]'' (2007)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://outofthiseos.typepad.com/blog/2008/03/hugo-short-stor.html |title=Harper Voyager Books: FREE HUGO SHORT STORIES: Ken Macleod and Greg Egan |publisher=Outofthiseos.typepad.com |date=27 March 2008 |access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref>
* ''[[Oceanic (novella)|Oceanic]]'' (1998)
}}

'''[[Crystal Nights and Other Stories]]''' (2009), {{ISBN|978-1-59606-240-5}}

{{columns-list|colwidth=22em|
* ''[[Lost Continent (short story)|Lost Continent]]'' (2008)
* ''[[Crystal Nights (short story)|Crystal Nights]]'' (2008)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ttapress.com/553/crystal-nights-by-greg-egan/0/4/ |title=Interzone: Science Fiction & Fantasy – Crystal Nights |last=Egan |first=Greg |publisher=TTA Press |date=27 January 2009 |access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref>
* ''Steve Fever'' (2007)<ref>{{cite web|last=Egan |first=Greg |url=http://www.technologyreview.com/article/408858/steve-fever/ |title=Steve Fever &#124; MIT Technology Review |publisher=Technologyreview.com |date=15 October 2007 |access-date=26 August 2014}}</ref>
* ''[[TAP (novelette)|TAP]]'' (1995)
* ''Induction'' (2007)
* ''[[Singleton (short story)|Singleton]]'' (2002)<ref group=note>''Singleton'' introduced the concept of the ''Qusp'', which was later used in the novel ''[[Schild's Ladder]]''.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gregegan.net/MISC/SINGLETON/Singleton.html |title=Singleton |last=Egan |first=Greg |publisher=Gregegan.net |date=8 August 2002 |access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref>
* ''Oracle'' (2000)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gregegan.net/MISC/ORACLE/Oracle.html |title=Oracle |last=Egan |first=Greg |publisher=Gregegan.net |date=12 November 2000 |access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref>
* ''[[Border Guards (novelette)|Border Guards]]'' (1999)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gregegan.net/BORDER/Border.html |title=Border Guards |last=Egan |first=Greg |publisher=Gregegan.net |date=12 April 1999 |access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref>
* ''Hot Rock'' (2009)
}}

'''[[Oceanic (book)|Oceanic]]''' (2009), {{ISBN|978-0-575-08652-4}}

{{columns-list|colwidth=22em|
* ''[[Lost Continent (short story)|Lost Continent]]'' (2008)
* ''[[Dark Integers]]'' (2007)
* ''[[Crystal Nights (short story)|Crystal Nights]]'' (2008)
* ''Steve Fever'' (2007)
* ''Induction'' (2007)
* ''[[Singleton (short story)|Singleton]]'' (2002)
* ''Oracle'' (2000)
* ''[[Border Guards (novelette)|Border Guards]]'' (1999)
* ''[[Riding the Crocodile]]'' (2005)
* ''[[Glory (novelette)|Glory]]'' (2007)
* ''Hot Rock'' (2009)
* ''[[Oceanic (novella)|Oceanic]]'' (1998)
}}

'''[[The Best of Greg Egan]]''' (2019), {{ISBN|978-1-59606-942-8}}

{{columns-list|colwidth=22em|
* ''[[Learning to Be Me]]'' (1990)
* ''[[Axiomatic (short story)|Axiomatic]]'' (1990)
* ''[[Appropriate Love]]'' (1991)
* ''[[Into Darkness (novelette)|Into Darkness]]'' (1992)
* ''[[Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies]]'' (1992)
* ''Closer'' (1992)
* ''[[Chaff (novelette)|Chaff]]'' (1993)
* ''[[Luminous (short story)|Luminous]]'' (1995)
* ''[[Silver Fire (novelette)|Silver Fire]]'' (1995)
* ''[[Reasons to Be Cheerful (short story)|Reasons to Be Cheerful]]'' (1997)
* ''[[Oceanic (novella)|Oceanic]]'' (1998)
* ''Oracle'' (2000)
* ''[[Singleton (short story)|Singleton]]'' (2002)
* ''[[Dark Integers]]'' (2007)
* ''[[Crystal Nights (short story)|Crystal Nights]]'' (2008)
* ''[[Zero for Conduct (novelette)|Zero For Conduct]]'' (2013)
* ''Bit Players'' (2014)<ref name="subterraneanpress_com">{{cite web |url=https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/winter_2014/bit_players_by_greg_egan |title=Bit Players |last=Egan |first=Greg |publisher=Subterranean Press |year=2014 |access-date=22 October 2019 |archive-date=27 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027183404/https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/winter_2014/bit_players_by_greg_egan |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* ''Uncanny Valley'' (2017)<ref name="Uncanny">{{cite web|url=https://www.tor.com/2017/08/09/uncanny-valley/ |title=Uncanny Valley |last=Egan |first=Greg |publisher=Tor.com |date=9 August 2017 |access-date=22 October 2019}}</ref>
* ''3-adica'' (2018)
* ''Instantiation'' (2019)
}}

'''[[Instantiation (collection)|Instantiation]]''' (2020), {{ISBN|978-1-922240-39-2}}

{{columns-list|colwidth=22em|
* ''The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine'' (2017)
* ''[[Zero for Conduct (novelette)|Zero For Conduct]]'' (2013)
* ''Uncanny Valley'' (2017)<ref name="Uncanny" />
* ''Seventh Sight'' (2014)
* ''The Nearest'' (2018)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tor.com/2018/07/19/the-nearest-greg-egan/ |title=The Nearest |last=Egan |first=Greg |publisher=Tor.com |date=19 July 2018 |access-date=22 October 2019}}</ref>
* ''Shadow Flock'' (2014)
* ''Bit Players'' (2014)<ref name="subterraneanpress_com" />
* ''Break My Fall'' (2014)<ref name="Tor Infinity">{{cite web |url=http://www.tor.com/2014/06/12/book-review-anthology-reach-for-infinity-jonathan-strahan/ |title=Step into the Stars: ''Reach for Infinity'', ed. Jonathan Strahan |work=[[Tor.com]] |first=Niall |last=Alexander |date=12 June 2014 |access-date=13 December 2015}}</ref>
* ''3-adica'' (2018)
* ''[[The Slipway]]'' (2019)
* ''Instantiation'' (2019)
}}

'''[[Sleep and the Soul (collection)|Sleep and the Soul]]''' (2023), {{ISBN|978-1-922240-47-7}}

{{columns-list|colwidth=22em|
* ''You and Whose Army?'' (2020)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/egan_10_20/ |title=You and Whose Army? |last=Egan |first=Greg |publisher=Clarkesworld Magazine, issue 169, October 2020 |date=1 October 2020 |access-date=1 October 2020}}</ref>
* ''[[This Is Not the Way Home (short story)|This Is Not the Way Home]]'' (2019)
* ''Zeitgeber'' (2019)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tor.com/2019/09/25/zeitgeber-greg-egan/ |title=Zeitgeber |last=Egan |first=Greg |publisher=Tor.com |date=25 September 2019 |access-date=22 October 2019}}</ref>
* ''[[Crisis Actors (short story)|Crisis Actors]]'' (2022)
* ''Sleep and the Soul'' (2021)
* ''[[After Zero]]'' (2022)
* ''[[Dream Factory (short story)|Dream Factory]]'' (2022)
* ''Light Up the Clouds'' (2021)
* ''Night Running'' (2023)
* ''Solidity'' (2022)
}}

'''[[Phoresis and Other Journeys]]''' (2023), {{ISBN|978-1-922240-50-7}}
{{columns-list|colwidth=22em|
* ''[[The Four Thousand, The Eight Hundred]]'' (2016), {{ISBN|978-1-59606-791-2}}
* ''Dispersion'' (2020)
* ''Phoresis'' (2018), {{ISBN|978-1-59606-866-7}}
}}

===Other short fiction===
{{columns-list|colwidth=22em|
* ''Artifact'' (1983)
* ''The Way She Smiles, The Things She Says'' (1985)
* ''Tangled Up'' (1985)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gregegan.net/MISC/TANGLED/Tangled.html |title=Tangled Up |last=Egan |first=Greg |publisher=Gregegan.net |date=21 March 2020 |access-date=29 April 2020}}</ref>
* ''Mind Vampires'' (1986)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gregegan.net/HORROR/VAMPIRES/Vampires.html |title=Mind Vampires |last=Egan |first=Greg |publisher=Gregegan.net |date=29 May 2001 |access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref>
* ''[[Neighbourhood Watch (short story)|Neighbourhood Watch]]'' (1987)
* ''Scatter My Ashes'' (1988)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gregegan.net/HORROR/SCATTER/Scatter.html |title=Scatter My Ashes |last=Egan |first=Greg |publisher=Gregegan.net |date=16 May 2001 |access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref>
* ''The Extra'' (1990)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://eidolon.net/?story=The%20Extra |title=The Extra |last=Egan |first=Greg |publisher=eidolon.net |date=August 1990 |access-date=23 August 2014 |archive-date=14 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214042958/http://eidolon.net/?story=The%20Extra |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* ''The Vat'' (1990)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://eidolon.net/?story=The%20Vat |title=The Vat |last=Egan |first=Greg |publisher=eidolon.net |date=December 1990 |access-date=23 August 2014 |archive-date=9 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509203354/https://eidolon.net/?story=The%20Vat |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* ''In Numbers'' (1991)
* ''The Demon's Passage'' (1991)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://eidolon.net/?story=The%20Demons%20Passage |title=The Demon's Passage |last=Egan |first=Greg |publisher=eidolon.net |date=July 1991 |access-date=23 August 2014 |archive-date=9 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509202353/https://eidolon.net/?story=The%20Demons%20Passage |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* ''Fidelity'' (1991)
* ''Before'' (1992)
* ''Dust'' (1992)<ref group=note>''Dust'' was incorporated into the novel ''[[Permutation City]]'' as the first few chapters in one narrative thread.</ref>
* ''Worthless'' (1992)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/worth.htm |title=Worthless – a short story |last=Egan |first=Greg |publisher=Infinityplus.co.uk |year=1992 |access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref>
* ''Reification Highway'' (1992)
* ''[[Wang's Carpets]]'' (1995)<ref group=note>''Wang'' refers to the mathematician [[Hao Wang (academic)|Hao Wang]]&nbsp;– the ''carpets'' are living embodiments of [[Wang tile]]s. This story, minorly reworked, became a section of the novel ''[[Diaspora (novel)|Diaspora]]''.</ref>
* ''Yeyuka'' (1997)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/yeyuka.htm |title=Yeyuka – a short story |last=Egan |first=Greg |publisher=Infinityplus.co.uk |year=1997 |access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref>
* ''[[Schild's Ladder#Background|Only Connect]]'' (2000)<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.gregegan.net/SCHILD/Connect/Connect.html |title=Only Connect |last=Egan |first=Greg |journal=Nature |volume=403 |issue=6770 |pages=599 |publisher=Gregegan.net |date=9 August 2000 |access-date=23 August 2014|pmid=10688177 |doi=10.1038/35001162 |bibcode=2000Natur.403..599E |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* ''In the Ruins'' (2013)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gregegan.net/MISC/RUINS/Ruins.html |title=In the Ruins |last=Egan |first=Greg |publisher=Gregegan.net |date=23 September 2013 |access-date=22 October 2019}}</ref>
* ''[[Didicosm]]'' (2023)
* ''Death and the Gorgon'' (2024)
* ''Vouch for Me'' (2024)}}

===Excerpted===
* ''[[Diaspora (novel)|Diaspora]]'':
** "Orphanogenesis" in ''[[Interzone (magazine)|Interzone]]'' issue 123, September 1997<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gregegan.net/DIASPORA/01/Orphanogenesis.html |title=Orphanogenesis |last=Egan |first=Greg |publisher=Gregegan.net |date=10 June 2002 |access-date=1 November 2019}}</ref>

===Academic papers===
* ''An Efficient Algorithm for the Riemannian 10j Symbols'' by Dan Christensen and Greg Egan<ref>{{Cite journal|arxiv=gr-qc/0110045 |title=An efficient algorithm for the Riemannian 10j symbols |journal=Classical and Quantum Gravity |volume=19 |issue=6 |pages=1185–1194 |date=24 January 2002 |last1=Christensen |first1=J Daniel |last2=Egan |first2=Greg |doi=10.1088/0264-9381/19/6/310 |bibcode=2002CQGra..19.1185C |s2cid=14908906 }}</ref>
* ''Asymptotics of 10j Symbols'' by [[John Baez]], Dan Christensen and Greg Egan<ref>{{Cite journal|arxiv=gr-qc/0208010 |title=Asymptotics of 10j symbols |journal=Classical and Quantum Gravity |volume=19 |issue=24 |pages=6489 |date=4 November 2002 |last1=Baez |first1=John C |last2=Christensen |first2=J Daniel |last3=Egan |first3=Greg |doi=10.1088/0264-9381/19/24/315 |bibcode=2002CQGra..19.6489B |s2cid=10556245 }}</ref>
* ''Conic-Helical Orbits of Planets around Binary Stars do not Exist'' by Greg Egan<ref>{{Cite journal|arxiv=1510.05345 |title=Conic-Helical Orbits of Planets around Binary Stars do not Exist |journal=Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy |volume=130 |issue=130 |date=19 October 2015 |last1=Egan |first1=Greg |page=5 |doi=10.1007/s10569-017-9803-7 |bibcode=2018CeMDA.130....5E |s2cid=119235670 }}</ref>

==Short movies==
The production of a short film inspired by the story "[[Axiomatic (short story)|Axiomatic]]" commenced in 2015,<ref>{{IMDb title|id=tt4654466|title=Axiomatic}}</ref> and the film was released online in October 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://filmshortage.com/dailyshortpicks/axiomatic/ |title=Axiomatic |publisher=Film shortage |date=27 October 2017 |access-date=31 October 2017}}</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
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* {{ISFDB name |name=Greg Egan}}
* [http://lccn.loc.gov/n85010566 Greg Egan] at [[Library of Congress]] Authorities – with 11 catalogue records
* [https://www.freesfonline.net/authors/Greg_Egan.html Stories currently online] at ''Free Speculative Fiction Online''

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