Greg Egan

[AE35Unit]

Any readers of this author on here? I tried to read Permutation City years ago but struggled and had to give up. However I was reading about one of his novels, Teranesia which concerns itself with ecologies and such and the synopsis got my interest. I have just been in the village library and found some of his novels including Teranesia which I brought home to read next. Some on Library Thing and Blogger have said that he is difficult to read, or 'hard work', do others share that opinion?

 

[GOLLUM]

Seeing that Mr. Egan is one of our leading SF writers I should know more about him but I'm only really now discovering/studying the origins of SF in Australia LOL!

 

[AE35Unit]

Seeing that Mr. Egan is one of our leading SF writers I should know more about him but I'm only really now discovering/studying the origins of SF in Australia LOL!

Ah yes, I forgot he is Australian! I know he has a cool website as well as a page listing EVERY interzone issue pu blished,with references to every story by all authors,which is rather neat!

 

[GOLLUM]

Yes. An interesting character to listen to first-hand too.

Pretty well respected.

 

[AE35Unit]

It seems one of his books was optioned for a movie in 2008!:

'Two major Hollywood studios - Universal and Warner Bros. - are currently in an ongoing, litigious battle to win the rights to film a novel that is widely considered to be one of the bestsellers of the last decade namely 'Diaspora' by Australian author greg Egan. According to critics and movie-industry insiders, the novel, a 'hard-SF blockbuster', will translate to film very well. "It's got everything a good movie needs", said a source close to Warner Bros., yesterday. "Love interest, epic space battles, political treachery, good versus evil family values ........ there's no way this one could lose", he added. '

From group:rec.arts.sf.written author:Greg author:Egan

 

[jojajihisc]

I have not yet read any of his novels. I am going to give his short fiction a good long sampling before I buy anything else. I've read Closer, Singleton, Oceanic and Wang's Carpets all excellent. I'll probably get to Border Guards, The Planck Drive, and Glory this month. If those are as good as the others I'm sure I'll start buying his novels soon enough.

 

[AE35Unit]

I have not yet read any of his novels. I am going to give his short fiction a good long sampling before I buy anything else. I've read Closer, Singleton, Oceanic and Wang's Carpets all excellent. I'll probably get to Border Guards, The Planck Drive, and Glory this month. If those are as good as the others I'm sure I'll start buying his novels soon enough.

Why buy books? Isn't there a lending library nearby? Good grief if the only avenue to new fiction was buying i'd hardly be reading anything new cos there's no way I could afford to!

 

[jojajihisc]

No lending libraries besides the world class, parchment scroll, research library next door. Kidding.

Yes, there is a library nearby but I doubt if they have any Greg Egan on their shelves. The big chain bookstores don't even carry him. I buy because I like having a lot of books at home to choose from any time I want. We can afford to buy books and so we do. We tend to sell a lot back as well, thereby getting credit (usually) to use in the store to buy more books. However, of the four short stories I've read by Egan only Wang's Carpets came from a book I own. The other three were read online.

 

[Emphyrio]

Just to let Egan fans know, the current issue of Irish speculative fiction magazine Albedo One happens to feature an interview with the man himself.

 

[AE35Unit]

Just to let Egan fans know, the current issue of Irish speculative fiction magazine Albedo One happens to feature an interview with the man himself.

Hmm,wouldn't mind getting that!