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Greg Egan

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Greg Egan is an Australian science fiction writer, mathematician, and computer programmer. His fiction frequently explores mathematics, physics, computation, consciousness, identity, and posthumanism, and includes novels, novellas, short-story collections, and essays. He has received major science fiction honors including the Hugo, John W. Campbell Memorial, Locus, Aurealis, Ditmar, and Seiun awards.

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Greg Egan's Newest Book

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Permutation City

A landmark standalone novel and a representative introduction to Egan's themes of computation, identity, and consciousness.

Cover of Axiomatic

Axiomatic

A compact entry point into Egan's mathematically focused short fiction.

Orthogonal Book One: The Clockwork Rocket

The natural starting point for the complete Orthogonal series.

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Orthogonal

A three-volume hard science fiction series set in a universe with physical laws different from those of our own.

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  1. 1
    Orthogonal Book One: The Clockwork Rocket

    Book 1 · novel · 2011

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  2. 2
    Orthogonal Book Two: The Eternal Flame

    Book 2 · novel · 2012

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  3. 3
    Orthogonal Book Three: The Arrows of Time

    Book 3 · novel · 2013

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Outside the series

Bibliography by category

Novels (17)
  1. Cover of An Unusual Angle
    An Unusual Angle

    novel · 1983

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  2. Cover of Quarantine
    Quarantine

    novel · 1992

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  3. Cover of Permutation City
    Permutation City

    novel · 1994

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  4. Cover of Distress
    Distress

    novel · 1995

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  5. Cover of Diaspora
    Diaspora

    novel · 1997

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  6. Cover of Teranesia
    Teranesia

    novel · 1999

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  7. Cover of Schild's Ladder
    Schild's Ladder

    novel · 2002

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  8. Cover of Incandescence
    Incandescence

    novel · 2008

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  9. Cover of Zendegi
    Zendegi

    novel · 2010

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  10. Cover of The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred
    The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred

    novella · 2015

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  11. Cover of Dichronauts
    Dichronauts

    novel · 2017

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  12. Cover of Phoresis
    Phoresis

    novella · 2018

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  13. Cover of Perihelion Summer
    Perihelion Summer

    novella · 2019

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  14. Cover of Dispersion
    Dispersion

    novella · 2020

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  15. Cover of The Book of All Skies
    The Book of All Skies

    novel · 2021

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  16. Cover of Scale
    Scale

    novel · 2023

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  17. Cover of Morphotrophic
    Morphotrophic

    novel · 2024

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Short fiction (9)
  1. Cover of Axiomatic
    Axiomatic

    short-story-collection · 1995

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  2. Our Lady of Chernobyl

    short-story-collection · 1995

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  3. Cover of Luminous
    Luminous

    short-story-collection · 1998

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  4. Cover of Oceanic
    Oceanic

    short-story-collection · 2009

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  5. Cover of Instantiation
    Instantiation

    short-story-collection · 2020

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  6. Cover of Sleep and the Soul
    Sleep and the Soul

    short-story-collection · 2023

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  7. Cover of Phoresis and Other Journeys
    Phoresis and Other Journeys

    short-story-collection · 2023

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Essays and speeches (20)
  1. Foundations 1: Special Relativity

    article · 1997

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  2. Foundations 2: From Special to General

    article · 1998

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  3. Foundations 3: Black Holes

    article · 1999

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  4. Foundations 4: Quantum Mechanics

    article · 2000

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  5. An Efficient Algorithm for the Riemannian 10j Symbols

    academic-article · 2001

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  6. Asymptotics of 10j Symbols

    academic-article · 2002

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  7. No Sugar

    essay · 2002

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  8. Stephen Wolfram's Science

    essay · 2002

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  9. The Razor Wire Looking Glass

    essay · 2003

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  10. Letters from the Forgotten

    essay · 2005

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  11. Avatar Review

    essay · 2009

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  12. Born Again, Briefly

    essay · 2009

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  13. Anatomy of a Hatchet Job

    essay · 2009

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  14. Some Thoughts on Tuesday's Child

    essay · 2010

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  15. Google, the Stupidity Amplifier

    essay · 2012

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  16. No Intelligence Required

    essay · 2015

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  17. Polar Orbits Around Binary Stars

    academic-article · 2015

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  18. Inside 3-adica

    essay · 2018

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  19. The View Through a Wormhole

    essay · 2019

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  20. A Report on Miracle Ingredient A

    article · 1995

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