theendoftheuniverse.ca - 12/30/2008
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There's an interesting essay on the Tor blog by a Toronto writer that ponders why Austrailan science fiction writer Greg Egan is not a superstar. His writing and ideas are brilliant and those who faithfully follow his work love his books yet fandom at large doesn't seem to buy ...
REVIEW: Incandescence by Greg Egan
sfsignal.com 10/24/2008 —
REVIEW SUMMARY : A book for people who are really, really into science.
MY RATING :
BRIEF SYNOPSIS : A pair of post-humans searches for clues to the origin of DNA based life; a society dwelling inside an asteroid must discover the laws of ...
Why Isn't Greg Egan A Superstar?
tor.com 12/19/2008 — I have a confession to make. About ten years ago, I pretty much gave up on reading science fiction. It wasn’t that I didn’t like it anymore; it was that I increasingly felt like I had already read all the good stuff, so I decided to take a few years ...
Incandescence by Greg Egan
sfsite.com 9/1/2008 — If the world of SF were a stock market then Greg Egan would be a blue chip company. Hugely respected and a doyen of the Hard SF scene, he is not what you would call unpredictable. This, his first novel in six years, is as blue chip as ever in that not ...
Incandescence by Greg Egan
sfsite.com 3/9/2009 — Why do we read hard science fiction? It could be that in a hard SF story the characters are bound by the laws of the universe, the threat they face is shaped by the immutable rule of nature. In other words, science is king, physics or chemistry or, ...
Greg Egan: The big interview
keepingthedoor.com 5 days ago — Australian sci-fi author on his next novel Zendegi.
Related posts: Master of Light and Shadow: Janny Wurts interview
Transmission 7: Crystal Nights by Greg Egan
transmissionsfrombeyond.com 10/2/2008 —
Crystal Nights by Greg Egan
Read by Dave Jones
From Interzone 215, April 2008
Podcast Length: 67 minutes • Transmission Length: 61 minutes
Crystal Nights contains very brief strong language
All rights are reserved. Please refer to our ...
Review | Orbus by Neal Asher (Tor UK)
walkerofworlds.blogspot.com 8/3/2009 — Title: Orbus Author: Neal Asher Publisher: Tor UK Format: Hardback Pages: 448 Release Date: September 4th 2009 In charge of an old cargo spaceship, the Old Captain Orbus flees a violent and sadistic past, but he doesn’t know that the lethal war drone, Sniper, is a stowaway, and that the ...
"It's About the Characters, Stupid!"
jetgirl78.livejournal.com 3/25/2009 — Days later, I am still thinking about the finale. Honestly, I don't quite know what to make of my feelings other than it is just this weird mixture of disappointed satisfaction. I loved it and loathe it at once, but I don't know how else the epic ...
To trace impunity: Greg Egan’s Permutation City
tor.com 9/17/2008 — There are readings of a book you can’t have on first reading. One of them is the reading in the light of later work. Another is being impressed how much it hasn’t dated.
I loved Permutation City when I first read it in 1994. It blew me away. It ...
Neal Stephenson, spaceman Tom Shippey TLS
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk 11/10/2008 — s new novel is a great thick brick of a book, weighing one-and-a-half kilos, its 937 pages ending with three appendices, or Calcas , which are in effect geometric puzzles-cum-explanations. Phrases like six-dimensional space are common enough in ...
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