Greg Egan

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1992
  • Latest Book:
    May 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Orthogonal

1 - The Clockwork Rocket (Jul-2011)
2 - The Eternal Flame (Sep-2012)
3 - The Arrows of Time (Aug-2014)

Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • Quarantine

    It causes riots and religions. It has people dancing in the streets and leaping off skyscrapers. And it's all because of the impenetrable gray shield that slid into place around the solar system on the night of November 15, 2034.

    Some see th...

  • Distress

    IT IS 2055. THE WORLD IS FAR BETTER -- AND INFINITELY WORSE. Investigative reporter Andrew Worth turns down a documentary on a mysterious new mental illness--"Distress" or acute clinical anxiety syndrome, for another assignment. He's on his way ...

  • Permutation City

    THE GOOD NEWS is that you have just awakened into Eternal Life. You are going to live forever. Immortality is a reality. A medical miracle? Not exactly. THE BAD NEWS is that you are a scrap of electronic code. The world you see around you, the y...

  • Axiomatic

    A collection of science fiction stories that looks at the possible future includes stories of genetically altered dolphins that speak in limericks and a software program that allows users to design their own child...

  • Diaspora

    In a new world of digital beings, an Orphan is born, and humans have chosen to be forever digitized, have selected renewable robotic bodies, or remain flesh on Earth, until a devastating event occurs, causing the Orphan go to Earth to protect the Fle...

  • Teranesia

    Welcome to Teranesia, the island of butterflies, where evolution has stopped making sense. Prabir Suresh and his younger sister, Madhusree, live in a remote paradise called Teranesia, where their biologist parents are studying an unexplained genet...

  • Incandescence

    The long-awaited new novel from Greg Egan! Hugo Award-winning author Egan returns to the field with Incandescence, a new novel of hard SF.The Amalgam spans nearly the entire galaxy, and is composed of innumerable beings from a wild variety of races, ...

  • Zendegi

    Set in a near future Iran (where the theocracy has been overthrown, but where Muslim religion still dominates the culture), an Arab/Muslim focused MMORG gaming companies cutting edge AI software might hold the key achieving "uploaded consciousness."M...

  • Schild's Ladder

    When the laws of physics are suddenly called into question, a whole new potential for life and death is brought to the entire universe.For twenty thousand years, every phenomenon that has ever been observed in the universe has been explainable...



  • Dark Integers and Other Stories

    Greg Egan's first new collection in a decade contains five stories, set in three worlds. In "Luminous," two mathematicians searching for a flaw in the structure of arithmetic find themselves pitted against a ruthless arms manufacturer. In "Dark Integ...

  • Oceanic

    Oceanic is a collection of twelve science fiction stories by Greg Egan, including the Hugo-award-winning title story:“Lost Continent”“Dark Integers”“Crystal Nights”“Steve Fever”“Induction”“Singleton”“Oracle”“Border Guard...

  • Crystal Nights and Other Stories

    The nine stories in Greg Egan's new collection range from parables of contemporary human conflict and ambition to far-future tales of our immortal descendants.

    In "Lost Continent", a time traveler seeking refuge from a war-torn land faces host...

  • The Clockwork Rocket

    Orthogonal - 1

    In Yalda's universe, light has no universal speed and its creation generates energy. On Yalda's world, plants make food by emitting their own light into the dark night sky. As a child Yalda witnesses one of a series of strange meteors, the Hurt...

  • The Eternal Flame

    Orthogonal - 2

    Greg Egan’s The Clockwork Rocket introduced readers to an exotic universe where the laws of physics are very different from our own, where the speed of light varies in ways Einstein would never allow, and where intelligent life has evolved in uniqu...

  • Mammoth Books presents Wang's Carpets

    Far in the distant, post-human future, the Cater-Zimmermann community set out to refute the theory that the universe is created exclusively for mankind by cloning themselves a thousand times over and sending each copy to a different star within the g...

  • Luminous

    Luminous is a collection of ten short stories by the award-winning science-fiction writer Greg Egan:“Chaff”“Mitochondrial Eve”“Luminous”“Mister Volition”“Cocoon”“Transition Dreams”“Silver Fire”“Reasons to Be Cheerful”...

  • The Arrows of Time

    Orthogonal - 3

    Hard science fiction’s grand master delivers the stunning conclusion to his Orthogonal trilogy. In a universe where the laws of physics and the speed of light are completely alien to our own, the travelers on the ship Peerless have completed a g...

  • Schild's Latter

    The Age of Death ended countless millennia ago. No longer burdened by limited lifespans, the immortal humans who populate inhabited space now have the luxury to travel vast distances effortlessly and to tinker with the intricate mechanics of space ti...

  • The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred

    Camille is desperate to escape her home on colonized asteroid Vesta, journeying through space in a small cocoon pod covertly and precariously attached to a cargo ship. Anna is a newly appointed port director on asteroid Ceres, intrigued by the causes...



  • Dichronauts

    Seth is a surveyor, along with his friend Theo, a leech-like creature running through his skull who tells Seth what lies to his left and right. Theo, in turn, relies on Seth for mobility, and for ordinary vision looking forwards and backwards. Like e...

  • Uncanny Valley

    Immortality, but at what price, in what form, and how could you be you? In the near future it’s possible to build a new you, a better you, one that could carry on forever. But if you could carry on, if you could make choices about who you woul...

  • Phoresis

    Welcome to Tvíbura and Tvíburi, the richly imagined twin planets that stand at the center of Greg Egan's extraordinary new novella, PHORESIS. These two planets…one inhabited, one not…exist in extreme proximity to one another. As the narrativ...

  • The Nearest

    When a detective, a new mother, is assigned to the case of a horrific triple murder, it appears to be a self-contained domestic tragedy, a terrible event but something that doesn’t affect the rest of the community. But it slowly becomes clear that ...

  • Perihelion Summer

    Greg Egan's Perihelion Summer is a story of people struggling to adapt to a suddenly alien environment, and the friendships and alliances they forge as they try to find their way in a world where the old maps have lost their meaning.Taraxippus is com...

  • Zeitgeber

    From the award-winning author Greg Egan comes a Tor.com Original sci-fi short story, "Zeitgeber"For millions of years, life on Earth has taken its cues from the rising and setting of the sun, and for most of human history we've followed the same rhyt...

  • Instantiation

    “Instantiation” is a collection of eleven science fiction stories by Hugo Award winning author Greg Egan:• “The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine”• “Zero For Conduct”• “Uncanny ValleyR...

  • The Best of Greg Egan

    Twenty Stories and Novellas from Hugo, Campbell, and Locus Award Winner Greg Egan, Arguably Australia’s Greatest Living Science Fiction Writer In a career spanning more than thirty years, Greg Egan has produced a steady stream of novels an...

  • Dispersion

    This latest novella from Greg Egan, Australia's reigning master of hard, rigorous SF, is an astonishment and a delight. With great economy and precision, it tells the story of an unprecedented new disease—the Dispersion of the title—and...

  • The Book of All Skies

    Del lives in a world of many skies: by passing through the Hoops embedded in the ground, her people can walk freely between land that lies beneath a new set of constellations for every circuit they make around the edge of a Hoop.When archaeologists f...



  • Scale

    When electronics importer Cara Leon goes missing, private investigator Sam Mujrif is hired by her sister to investigate. Cara is eight times taller than Sam, but evidence soon points to players much smaller than either of them. As Sam and his cross-s...

  • Phoresis and Other Journeys

    Phoresis and Other Journeys contains three novellas from Hugo Award-winning author Greg Egan.• “The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred”: civil war in an asteroid colony sees refugees fleeing, by any means possible.• “Dispe...

  • Sleep and the Soul

    Sleep and the Soul contains ten stories from Hugo Award-winning author Greg Egan.• “You and Whose Army?”• “This Is Not the Way Home”• “Zeitgeber”• “Crisis Actors”• “S...

Award-Winning Books by Greg Egan

Permutation City
1995 John W. Campbell Memorial Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Greg Egan has published 32 books.

Greg Egan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Sleep and the Soul, was published in May 2023.

The first book by Greg Egan, Quarantine, was published in September 1992.

Yes. Greg Egan has 1 series.
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