Greg Egan quotes:
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I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.
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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.
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You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.
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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.
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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."
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A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people.
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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.
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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.
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Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.
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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.
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I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.
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I've been taking longer to write stories lately.
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Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.
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If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall flat on our face, over and over agaain.
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Nobody wants to spend eternity alone.
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On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.
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Screw every known human culture.
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The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.
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Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.
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Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club.
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It was almost noon when the plane touched down at the Triad airport on the outskirts of Greensboro. There was a hire car waiting for me; I waved my notepad at the dashboard to transmit my profile, then waited as the seating and controls rearranged themselves slightly, piezoelectric actuators humming. As I started to reverse out of the parking bay, the stereo began a soothing improvisation, flashing up a deadpan title: Music for Leaving Airports 11 June 2008.
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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.
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Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.
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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.
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Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that.
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For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.
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How does it feel to be seven thousand years old? That depends. On what? On how I want to feel.
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I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.
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No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't want to be in"¦ and they make the best of it. But don't try to tell me it's some kind of"¦ glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It's not.
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No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape.