Frases de Greg Egan
Greg Egan
Fecha de nacimiento: 20. Agosto 1961
Greg Egan, nacido el 20 de agosto de 1961 en Perth . Matemático por formación y programador de computadoras por profesión, es más conocido por su faceta de escritor de novelas y relatos de ciencia ficción, en la que ha destacado en el panorama de los últimos años.
Egan está especializado en la llamada ciencia ficción dura, mezclando en sus historias de ficción temas matemáticos y metafísicos, como la naturaleza de la consciencia. Otros temas que ha tratado son la genética, la realidad simulada, la transferencia de mentes, la asexualidad y la inteligencia artificial. Algunos de sus relatos iniciales presentan fuertes elementos tomados del horror sobrenatural.
Entre los premios que ha recibido destacan el John W. Campbell Memorial de 1995 por Ciudad Permutación y los premios Hugo y Locus de 1998 al mejor relato por Oceanic.
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director de cine del Reino UnidoFrases Greg Egan
„My retainers keep me on ice. Dry ice. It slows my metabolism, takes the edge off my appetite, slightly. I lie, bound with heavy chains, between two great slabs of it, naked and sweating, trying to sleep through the torment of a summer's day.
They've given me the local fall-out shelter, the very deepest room they could find, as I requested. Yet my senses move easily through the earth and to the surface, out across the lazy, warm suburbs, restless emissaries skimming the sun-soaked streets. If I could rein them in I would, but the instinct that drives them is a force unto itself, a necessary consequence of what I am and the reason I was brought into being.
Being, I have discovered, has certain disadvantages. I intend seeking compensation, just as soon as the time is right.“
— Greg Egan
Neighbourhood Watch http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/HORROR/NEIGHBOUR/Neighbour.html
„I want to end my life like a human being: in Intensive Care, high on morphine, surrounded by cripplingly expensive doctors and brutal, relentless life-support machines. Then the corpse can go into orbit -- preferably around the sun. I don't care how much it costs, just so long as I don't end up part of any fucking natural cycle: carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen. Gaia, I divorce thee. Go suck the nutrients out of someone else, you grasping bitch.“
— Greg Egan
The Walk
„There are moments when my mind misses a beat. I find myself, in mid-step or mid-breath, feeling as if delivered abruptly into my body after a long absence (spent where, I could not say), or a long, dreamless sleep. I lose not my memory, merely my thread. My attention has inexplicably wandered, but a little calm introspection restores my context and brings me peace. Almost peace.“
— Greg Egan
Mind Vampires http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/HORROR/VAMPIRES/Vampires.html, published in Interzone (Winter 1986)
„Somebody out there, show your compassion, come and kill me. Cut me free and watch me slowly shrivel, or slice me up and flush me down a toilet. Any way you like, I don't mind. Come on! You do it for your youngest children, you do it for your sick old parents. Come and do it for me. I can tell you'd like it. Don't be nervous, lovers! You'll never be found out, if that's what's holding you back: I'll stay silent to the end, be it swift or slow. Come on, people! I'm totally defenceless. Hurry up! Don't be shy. You have the right. You made me, you created me, so you know you have the right.“
— Greg Egan
The Demon's Passage http://eidolon.net/?story=The%20Demons%20Passage, published in Eidolon (Winter 1991)
„The Extras were as clean as they'd ever been in their lives, and their hair - and beards in the case of the older ones - had been laboriously trimmed, in styles that amusingly parodied the latest fashions. Gray had almost gone so far as to have them clothed - but after much experimentation he'd decided against it; even the slightest scrap of clothing made them look too human, and he was acutely aware of the boundary between impressing his guests with his daring, and causing them real discomfort. Of course, naked, the Extras looked exactly like naked humans, but in Gray's cultural milieu, stark naked humans en masse were not a common sight, and so the paradoxical effect of revealing the creatures' totally human appearance was to make it easier to think of them as less than human.“
— Greg Egan
The Extra http://eidolon.net/?story=The%20Extra, published in Eidolon (Winter 1990)
„Yes, I'm complacent now, with my well enough paid job, with a wife I can almost talk to, with a three-year-old son all dark eyes and tousled hair and endearing clumsiness. We go driving on Sunday afternoons, through suburbs just like our own, past houses just like our own, an endlessly recurring, mesmerising daydream under the flawless blue sky. And I whistle an old song of yours, even if I never dare let the words past my lips:There's nothing wrong with The Family
That a flame-thrower can't fix
And there's nothing wrong with the salt of the Earth
That couldn't be cured with a well-aimed BRICK.</blockquote“
— Greg Egan
Worthless http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/worth.htm, published in the anthology In Dreams (1992)
„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.“
— Greg Egan
The Demon's Passage http://eidolon.net/?story=The%20Demons%20Passage
„Gambling is a kind of tax: a tax on stupidity. A tax on greed. Some money changes hands at random, but the net cash flow always goes one way - to the Government, to the casino operators, to the bookies, to the crime syndicates. If you ever do win, you won't have won against them. They'll still be getting their share. You'll have won against all the penniless losers, that's all.“
— Greg Egan
Eugene
„Still, for the first time in our lives, we would have been through exactly the same experience, from exactly the same point of view -- even if the experience was only spending eight hours locked in separate rooms, and the point of view was that of a genderless robot with an identity crisis.“
— Greg Egan
Closer
„There are times when it’s worth putting aside the endless myopic navel-gazing that occupies so much literature, in order to look out at the universe itself and value it for what it is.“
— Greg Egan
Interview with Renai LeMay http://rlemay.com.au/greg-egan-the-big-interview/
„Nobody wants to spend eternity alone.“
— Greg Egan
Closer http://eidolon.net/?story=Closer (also published in Eidolon, Winter 1992)
