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Egan specialises in Hard Science Fiction stories with Mathematical and Quantum Ontology themes, including the nature of Consciousness . Other themes include Genetics , Simulated Reality , Mind Transfer , Sexuality , Artificial Intelligence , and the superiority of Rational Materialism over Religion . He is a Hugo Award winner (and has been shortlisted for the Hugos three other times), and has also won the John W Campbell Memorial Award For Best Novel . Some of his earlier short stories feature strong elements of Supernatural Horror .

Egan's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including regular appearances in '' Interzone '' and '' Asimov's Science Fiction ''.

He has recently been active on the issue of Refugee s' Mandatory Detention In Australia .


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Novels



Collections



Short stories


Stories collected in ''Axiomatic''

  • "The Infinite Assassin"

  • "The Hundred Light-Year Diary"

  • "Eugene"

  • "The Caress"

  • " Blood Sisters "

  • "Axiomatic"

  • "The Safe-Deposit Box"

  • "Seeing"

  • "A Kidnapping"

  • "Learning to Be Me"

  • "The Moat"

  • "The Walk"

  • "The Cutie"

  • "Into Darkness"

  • "Appropriate Love"

  • "The Moral Virologist"

  • "Closer"

  • "Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies"'



Stories collected in ''Luminous''

  • "Chaff"

  • "Mitochondrial Eve"

  • "Luminous"

  • "Mister Volition"

  • "Cocoon"

  • "Transition Dreams"

  • "Silver Fire"

  • "Reasons to Be Cheerful"

  • "Our Lady of Chernobyl"

  • "The Planck Dive"



Other stories



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TRIVIA

In the short story compilation ''Luminous'', the word "luminous" occurs exactly once in every story (except for the title story ''Luminous'' in which it occurs many times). Continuing the tradition, a large number of Egan's other published novels and short stories include the word "luminous" exactly once.

In an issue of the Top 10 Comic Book , an AI officer is asked whether he would have ethical issues with transferring his mind into a new body for purposes of undercover work. He answers that, as he is a "High Church Eganite", he would have no problem.


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