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Why Isn't Greg Egan A Superstar?
tor.com - 12/19/2008
Why Isn't Greg Egan A Superstar?
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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 off. But even during that period, there were ...

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SF Tidbits for 12/19/08
SF Signal — ... Astronaut has The Spaceship and Space Hacks. @LibriVox: In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne, read by many readers. @Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "The Last Devil" by Sarah L. Edwards. Over at Tor.com, Jane Lindskold talks about her book covers. Chris Roberson's future Warhammer 40K book is...Sons of Dorn. Why Isn't Greg Egan A Superstar? Dark Roasted Blend looks at Jack Williamson's ...

Greg Egan Idea Man
Biology in Science Fiction — At Tor.com Jon Evans speculates on why Australian science fiction writer and computer programmer Greg Egan isn't a superstar. He says: If you haven’t read any Egan, you so should. He takes the wildest frontiers of today’s science and turns them into truly brainbending speculative fiction that continually challenges the reader’s ideas of both reality and humanity. He’s also a terrific sentence-by-sentence writer.Egan writes hard science fiction that is frequently based on mathematics, physics and computer science. For example, his short story "Wang's Carpets" involves the discovery of truly alien aliens that are ...

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