Greg Egan

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. ”

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. ”

I've been taking longer to write stories lately. ”

Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”