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Greg Egan
Australian
Scientist
Born:
Aug 20
,
1961
About
Anything
Been
Myself
Think
Writing
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Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.
Greg Egan
About
Caffeine
Lot
Explains
Century
Use
Twentieth
Twentieth Century
Widespread
A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people.
Greg Egan
People
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Thousands
Thousands Of People
Read
Story
Asimov
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 first, which then makes a US edition more likely.
Greg Egan
Book
Sometimes
First
Local
Boom
Easier
More
Writers
New
Likely
Undergone
Makes
Edition
Sell
Australian
Which
Then
Us
Publisher
Publishing
Recently
Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.
Greg Egan
Starts
Software
Our
Consists
Thousand
Thousand Years
Inside
About
Civilisation
Computers
Major
Most
Years
Branch
Human
Essentially
Moved
Descendants
Now
Conscious
Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club.
Greg Egan
Great
Big
Club
About
Social
I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.
Greg Egan
Change
Writing
Some
About
Structured
Intend
Any
Just
Grand
Which
Interest
Plan
Keep
Things
I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.
Greg Egan
Time
You
Thought
Before
Once
Bit
Seems
Given
Winning
Prospect
Nominated
Nomination
Obviously
Than
Hugo
Happened
Much
Far-Fetched
Less
I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.
Greg Egan
Opportunities
Think
Everywhere
Writers
New
Get
Published
Need
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 own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants.
Greg Egan
Own
Relatively
Way
Giants
Rarely
About
Only
New
Beck
Years
Grabbed
Artists
Anything
Might
Younger
Whose
Albums
I've been taking longer to write stories lately.
Greg Egan
Lately
Write
Taking
Longer
Been
Stories
I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.
Greg Egan
Myself
Writing
Long
Put
Supported
Since
Likely
Employers
Because
Off
Very
Gap
Now
Nearly
Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.
Greg Egan
Myself
Science
Astray
Flying
Kinds
Directions
Writers
Like
Been
Led
Lot
Off
Times
Goes
Often
Pop
Fashionable
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