Greg Egan

A recent survey of 2,000 male graduates of Harvard Business School found that penis length & IQ were equally good predictors of annual income. -- from "Eugene ↗

— Greg Egan

#science-fiction #business

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. ↗

— Greg Egan

#book #boom #easier #edition #first

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

#being #fastest #new #ones #only

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. ↗

— Greg Egan

#branch #civilisation #computers #conscious #consists

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

— Greg Egan

#big #club #great #social

I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway. ↗

— Greg Egan

#bad #david #david lynch #decisions #highway

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. ↗

— Greg Egan

#any #change #grand #i #intend

A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people. ↗

— Greg Egan

#hundreds #people #read #story #thousands

I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published. ↗

— Greg Egan

#get #i #i think #need #new

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. ↗

— Greg Egan

#albums #anything #artists #beck #giants