Egan's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including regular appearances in Interzone and Asimov's Science Fiction.
Mathematicsedit
In 2002, Egan co-authored two papers about Riemannian 10j symbols, spin networks appearing in Riemannian quantum gravity, together with John Baez and Dan Christensen. Spin networks also play a central role in his novel Schild's Ladder released the same year.
In 2014, Egan conjectured a generalization of the Grace–Danielsson inequality about the relation of the radii of two spheres and the distance of their respective centres to fit a simplex between them to also hold in higher dimensions, which later became known as the Egan conjecture. A proof of the inequality being sufficient was published by him in 2014 under a blog post of John Baez. They were lost due to a rearrangement of the website, but the central parts were copied into the original blog post. Further comments by Greg Egan on 16 April 2018 concern the search for a generalized conjecture involving ellipsoids.[7] A proof of the inequality also being necessary was published by Sergei Drozdov on 16 October 2023 on ArXiv.[8]
In 2018, Egan described a construction of superpermutations, thus giving an upper bound to their length. On 27 February 2019, using ideas developed by Robin Houston and others, Egan produced a superpermutation of n = 7 symbols of length 5906, breaking previous records.[9][10]
Egan does not attend science fiction conventions,[13] does not sign books, and has stated that he appears in no photographs on the web,[14] though both SF fan sites and Google Search have at times mistakenly represented photos of other people with the same name as those of the writer.[15]
"Orphanogenesis" in Interzone issue 123, September 1997[43]
Academic papersedit
An Efficient Algorithm for the Riemannian 10j Symbols by Dan Christensen and Greg Egan[44]
Asymptotics of 10j Symbols by John Baez, Dan Christensen and Greg Egan[45]
Conic-Helical Orbits of Planets around Binary Stars do not Exist by Greg Egan[46]
Short moviesedit
The production of a short film inspired by the story "Axiomatic" commenced in 2015,[47] and the film was released online in October 2017.[48]
Notesedit
^Singleton introduced the concept of the Qusp, which was later used in the novel Schild's Ladder.
^Dust was incorporated into the novel Permutation City as the first few chapters in one narrative thread.
^Wang refers to the mathematician Hao Wang – the carpets are living embodiments of Wang tiles. This story, minorly reworked, became a section of the novel Diaspora.
^ abcBurnham, Karen (30 April 2014). Greg Egan. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07993-1. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
^Booker, M. Keith (1 October 2014). Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction in Literature. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 98. ISBN 978-0810849389. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
^"UWA Award Verification Service". Retrieved 19 March 2018.
^"Bibliography". Gregegan.net. 7 August 2014. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^Egan, Greg. "Superpermutations". Retrieved 2 February 2019.
^Klarreich, Erica (5 November 2018). "Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
^Egan, Greg (19 October 2008). "Iran Trip Diary: Part 2, Esfahan". Gregegan.net. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^Egan, Greg (2009). "Born Again, Briefly". In Blackford, Russell; Schüklenk, Udo (eds.). 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists. Sussex: Wiley–Blackwell.
^Farr, Russell (September 1997). "Interviews". Gregegan.net. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^"Photos of Greg Egan, science fiction writer". Gregegan.net. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^Egan, Greg (24 August 2012). "Google, the Stupidity Amplifier". Gregegan.net. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^Egan, Greg (April 1992). "Closer". eidolon.net. Archived from the original on 26 December 2021. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^Egan, Greg (31 December 2006). "Riding the Crocodile". Gregegan.net. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^Egan, Greg (October 2007). "Dark Integers". Asimovs.com. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^"Harper Voyager Books: FREE HUGO SHORT STORIES: Ken Macleod and Greg Egan". Outofthiseos.typepad.com. 27 March 2008. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^Egan, Greg (27 January 2009). "Interzone: Science Fiction & Fantasy – Crystal Nights". TTA Press. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^Egan, Greg (15 October 2007). "Steve Fever | MIT Technology Review". Technologyreview.com. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
^Egan, Greg (8 August 2002). "Singleton". Gregegan.net. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^Egan, Greg (12 November 2000). "Oracle". Gregegan.net. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^Egan, Greg (12 April 1999). "Border Guards". Gregegan.net. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^Egan, Greg (2014). "Bit Players". Subterranean Press. Archived from the original on 27 October 2021. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
^ abEgan, Greg (9 August 2017). "Uncanny Valley". Tor.com. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
^Egan, Greg (19 July 2018). "The Nearest". Tor.com. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
^Egan, Greg (2014). "Bit Players". Subterranean Press. Archived from the original on 27 October 2021. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
^Alexander, Niall (12 June 2014). "Step into the Stars: Reach for Infinity, ed. Jonathan Strahan". Tor.com. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
^Egan, Greg (1 October 2020). "You and Whose Army?". Clarkesworld Magazine, issue 169, October 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
^Egan, Greg (25 September 2019). "Zeitgeber". Tor.com. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
^Egan, Greg (21 March 2020). "Tangled Up". Gregegan.net. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
^Egan, Greg (29 May 2001). "Mind Vampires". Gregegan.net. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^Egan, Greg (16 May 2001). "Scatter My Ashes". Gregegan.net. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^Egan, Greg (August 1990). "The Extra". eidolon.net. Archived from the original on 14 December 2021. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^Egan, Greg (December 1990). "The Vat". eidolon.net. Archived from the original on 9 May 2021. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^Egan, Greg (July 1991). "The Demon's Passage". eidolon.net. Archived from the original on 9 May 2021. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^Egan, Greg (1992). "Worthless – a short story". Infinityplus.co.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^Egan, Greg (1997). "Yeyuka – a short story". Infinityplus.co.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^Egan, Greg (9 August 2000). "Only Connect". Nature. 403 (6770). Gregegan.net: 599. Bibcode:2000Natur.403..599E. doi:10.1038/35001162. PMID 10688177. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^Egan, Greg (23 September 2013). "In the Ruins". Gregegan.net. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
^Chen, Ruoxi (26 April 2018). "Announcing Perihelion Summer, a New Novella from Greg Egan". Tor.com. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
^Egan, Greg (10 June 2002). "Orphanogenesis". Gregegan.net. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
^Christensen, J Daniel; Egan, Greg (24 January 2002). "An efficient algorithm for the Riemannian 10j symbols". Classical and Quantum Gravity. 19 (6): 1185–1194. arXiv:gr-qc/0110045. Bibcode:2002CQGra..19.1185C. doi:10.1088/0264-9381/19/6/310. S2CID 14908906.
^Baez, John C; Christensen, J Daniel; Egan, Greg (4 November 2002). "Asymptotics of 10j symbols". Classical and Quantum Gravity. 19 (24): 6489. arXiv:gr-qc/0208010. Bibcode:2002CQGra..19.6489B. doi:10.1088/0264-9381/19/24/315. S2CID 10556245.
^Egan, Greg (19 October 2015). "Conic-Helical Orbits of Planets around Binary Stars do not Exist". Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy. 130 (130): 5. arXiv:1510.05345. Bibcode:2018CeMDA.130....5E. doi:10.1007/s10569-017-9803-7. S2CID 119235670.