“Twelve thousand years after walking the plank, Rakesh woke on the floor of his tent. He was lying face-down on a blue and gold sleeping mat; he drew in a deep breath to savour the rich scent of its fibres.… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“Paul closed his eyes and turned his face to the sun. In spite of everything, it was hard not to take solace from the… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“I was recruited by the dead,’ Zak said. ‘Not in any rush to join them in their silence, but from the urgent need to… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“You have to be doubly foolish to be a Satanist,” Stoney muttered. “Doubly?” “Not only do you need to believe all the nonsense of… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to ‘conquer’ Earth, to steal their ‘precious’ physical resources, to wipe them out for fear of… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
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… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“If the technology improves sufficiently, the environmental impact of the wealthiest Copy could end up being less than that of the most ascetic living… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
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… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
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… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“The Transmuters had built a structure that dwarfed universes, but touched each one only lightly. They hadn’t turned whole worlds to rubble, they hadn’t… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“My earliest memories are of CP4 — that's a Kähler manifold that looks locally like a vector space with four complex directions, though the… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“We’ve been half right about a lot of things, but there’s something missing from our theories, something whose nature we haven’t even guessed yet.… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“Imagine a universe entirely without structure, without shape, without connections. A cloud of microscopic events, like fragments of space-time … except that there is… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
