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In case you missed it, John Baez's collaborator in that post is Greg Egan, who is well known for his brilliant and visionary science fiction. http://www.gregega
by shas3 10y ago
In case you missed it, John Baez's collaborator in that post is Greg Egan, who is well known for his brilliant and visionary science fiction. http://www.gregegan.net/ http://www.gregegan.net/
- xelxebar 10y agoI feel in love with his novel Diaspora before I knew anything about Egan the mathematician. Then in my grad school work, I randomly ran across his name and have subsequently read most of his books. Diaspora, however, remains my all time favorite novel.
- andyjohnson0 10y agoI always thought that Egan was primarily a SF writer who happened to be a proficient mathematician. Have I got that the wrong way around?
- pavel_lishin 10y agoIf you read The Clockwork Rocket, it becomes very, very obvious that Egan is a mathematician who will go to any length - including writing excellent fiction - to attempt to cram knowledge into your head.
- shas3 10y agoThat was my point, only my wording was suboptimal.
- Hortinstein 10y agoExample of his books (unfortunately the only one I have read...so far) Permutation City: People can run simulations of themselves or entirely migrate their consciousness into computer programs, but existence is often limited to the amount of computation that you can afford, leading to slow existences that stretch time into fractions of realtime. That premise had me hooked, but the book has fantastic thought provoking plot points throughout. Highly recommended.