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Screw every known human culture.
Greg Egan / Fiction Writer
Culture
Humans
Screws
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Nobody wants to spend eternity alone.
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Eternity
Want
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I've been taking longer to write stories lately.
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Stories
Writing
Lately
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Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club.
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Clubs
Fandoms
Social
Club
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No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.
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Journalism
Truth Is
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A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people.
Greg Egan / Fiction Writer
People
Stories
Asimov
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Thousands
Thousands Of People
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Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.
Greg Egan / Fiction Writer
Society
Caffeine
Century
Twentieth Century
Use
Explains
Widespread
Twentieth
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I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.
Greg Egan / Fiction Writer
Opportunity
Needs
Thinking
Everywhere
Writers
Opportunities
Published
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Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.
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Has Beens
Overrated
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I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.
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Admire
Decision
Lost
Thinking
Decisions
David
David Lynch
Highway
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For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.
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How does it feel to be seven thousand years old? That depends. On what? On how I want to feel.
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Doe
Want
Years
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On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.
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Cages
Emerging
Tigers
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The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.
Greg Egan / Fiction Writer
May
Stranger
Tough Times
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I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.
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Dark
Jewels
Years
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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.
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Interest
Things Change
Writing
Grand
Intend
Plan
Structured
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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.
Greg Egan / Fiction Writer
Quality
Screw Ups
Suffering
Fastest
New Ones
Rewarded
Suffer
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I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.
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Employers
Gaps
Long
Writing
Nearly
Gap
Likely
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You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.
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Modern
Pascal
Wagers
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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.
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Lying
Mean
Sake
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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.
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Drag
Fashionable
Flying
Kind
Astray
Directions
Writers
Led
Sf
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I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants.
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Artist
Giants
Years
Younger
Beck
New Way Anything
Grabbed
Relatively
Rarely
Whose
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If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall flat on our face, over and over again.
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Faces
Fall
Gazing
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Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.
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Inventory
Islands
Self
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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.
Greg Egan / Fiction Writer
Nominations
Perspective
Seems
Winning
Far-Fetched
Hugo
Nominated
Obviously
Prospect
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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.
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Computers
Branches
Civilisation
Conscious
Descendants
Diaspora
Moved
Software
Thousand
Thousand Years
Years
Inside
Branch
Consists
Essentially
Major
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Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.
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Australian
Book
Conceited
Easier
Firsts
Writers
Sell
Likely
Local
Publisher
Recently
Sf
Undergone
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No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't want to be in… and they make the best of it. But don't try to tell me it's some kind of… glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It's not.
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Growing Up
Lying
Maturity
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It was almost noon when the plane touched down at the Triad airport on the outskirts of Greensboro. There was a hire car waiting for me; I waved my notepad at the dashboard to transmit my profile, then waited as the seating and controls rearranged themselves slightly, piezoelectric actuators humming. As I started to reverse out of the parking bay, the stereo began a soothing improvisation, flashing up a deadpan title: Music for Leaving Airports 11 June 2008.
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Car
Airports
June
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