"Greg Egan"@en . . "An Australian author who puts the Hard Science back into Hard Science Fiction. Likes to show his work. His novels are: \n* Quarantine - The solar system is locked in a bubble by aliens. People routinely use \"neural implant\" devices to rewire their brains. \n* Permutation City - Philosophical inquiry leads to the creation of a universe, simply by starting to simulate it and then turning the computer off. \n* Distress - Political intrigue surrounding the development of a Theory of Everything. \n* Diaspora - Faced with a natural disaster on a galactic scale, post-humans flee into another universe. \n* Teranesia - Through quantum computing, life becomes capable of mutating into the optimum form for its environment. \n* Schild's Ladder - Post-humans explore the interior of a sphere of"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "An Australian author who puts the Hard Science back into Hard Science Fiction. Likes to show his work. His novels are: \n* Quarantine - The solar system is locked in a bubble by aliens. People routinely use \"neural implant\" devices to rewire their brains. \n* Permutation City - Philosophical inquiry leads to the creation of a universe, simply by starting to simulate it and then turning the computer off. \n* Distress - Political intrigue surrounding the development of a Theory of Everything. \n* Diaspora - Faced with a natural disaster on a galactic scale, post-humans flee into another universe. \n* Teranesia - Through quantum computing, life becomes capable of mutating into the optimum form for its environment. \n* Schild's Ladder - Post-humans explore the interior of a sphere of total annihilation. \n* Incandescence - Pre-industrial aliens discover General Relativity because their world circles the black hole at the centre of the galaxy. \n* Zendegi - Simulations of human neural maps are used to add realism to a virtual world. \n* Orthogonal - Aliens in a universe with very strange physics build a Generation Ship in an attempt to avert disaster. A trilogy, consisting of: \n* The Clockwork Rocket \n* The Eternal Flame (forthcoming) \n* The Arrows of Time (forthcoming) Common themes in his works include The Singularity, Transhumanism, atheism, regional politics, religion being the source of many problems, and non-standard sexual identities."@en . . .