greg egan

Egan, like the best of science fiction, is too smart for /lit/. And he's definitely too smart for /sci/.

He's very negative--his characters are almost all unlikeable--and not particularly concerned with the plight of the common man, though perhaps his themes circumvent such a lethargic and parochial view of life.

>>9587964
>As of 2015, Egan lives in Perth. He has been active on the issue of asylum seekers' mandatory detention in Australia
fuck off we're full

reviving this thread

i just finished distress and i loved it but i feel as though the last chapter could have been left out completely. it's a little too utopian.

Great, amazing ideas, unique for SF (especially modern!) Too bad his writing his as dry as Perth itself, not a pleasure to read.

>>9588040
Shouldn't you be at the beach with your braindead mates, enjoying the spoils of underpaying immigrants?

>>9589287
If it were up to me there wouldn't be any immigrants at all. 99% of pro-boats activists are raging sacks of poz. Granted Egan does seem like a likely candidate for the good 1% but still the issue bugs me. Think of the precedent we'd be setting if we were to freely allow a boat of desperate foreigners to settle in Australia and reap all of the benefits of Australian citizenship. And that's not even getting into the cultural and social impacts of taking in significant numbers of foreigners, the long term implications of indefinite population growth and all of the other problems that are never brought up when discussing these fucking boats.

>>9587964
>incandescence
The first story was the one about the birth of a new counciousness, wasn't it?
I liked that one.

Incandescence was much better than Zendegi, which I found too depressing. His best works are his short stories, anyway

I bought Permutation City a while ago and I guess it just got lost in the shuffle, might have to pick it up again if I can find it.