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“C'erano fiori senza stelo di abbacinanti colori, intricati iperconi trasparenti come ragnatele, e petali a quindici dimensioni come ipnotici labirinti frattali di sporgenze e capillari. C'erano mostruosità artigliate, mucchi di parti di insetto che si torcevano quasi in un'orgia di scorpioni decapitati.”

Greg Egan

Origine: I tappeti di Wang, p. 230

“Tutto è sopportabile, basta che finisca.”

Greg Egan

Origine: Axiomatic, Più vicino, p. 342

“Greg Egan, Axiomatic (Axiomatic, 1995), traduzione di Riccardo Valla, Urania 1470, Mondadori, 2003.”

Greg Egan

Bibliografia

“Greg Egan, Incandescence (Incandescence, 2008), traduzione di Riccardo Valla, Urania 1562, Mondadori, 2010.”

Greg Egan

Bibliografia

“Greg Egan, I tappeti di Wang (Wang's Carpets, 1995), traduzione di Gianluigi Zuddas, Urania Millemondi 49, Mondadori, 2009.”

Greg Egan

Bibliografia

“Collegati via satellite a un immenso schieramento di banche dati mediche e a tutta l'ulteriore potenza informatica necessaria, l'anello mi forniva una specie di sistema immunitario elettronico, tanto veloce e tanto intelligente da superare qualsiasi avversario.”

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Origine: Yeyuka, p. 100

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“A sei anni i miei genitori mi raccontarono che dentro il mio cranio c’era una gemma piccola e scura, che imparava a essere me.
Microscopici ragni avevano tessuto una ragnatela dorata nel mio cervello, perché l’contenuto nella gemma potesse udire il sussurro dei miei pensieri. La gemma origliava i miei sensi e interpretava i messaggi chimici trasportati dalla circolazione sanguigna: la gemma vedeva, udiva, odorava, gustava e toccava il mondo esattamente come me, mentre l’istruttore monitorava i suoi pensieri e li confrontava con i miei. Ogni qualvolta questi pensieri erano sbagliati, l’istruttore, più veloce del pensiero, dava una risistemata alla gemma, facendo una piccola modifica qua e là, apportando i cambiamenti necessari per correggere i suoi pensieri.
Perché? Perché quando non avessi più potuto essere me, la gemma avrebbe potuto esserlo al posto mio.
Io pensai: “Se ciò che sento mi fa sentire strano e mi dà le vertigini, cosa deve provare la?”. Esattamente la stessa cosa, riflettei; non sa di essere la gemma e anch’essa si domanda cosa può provare la gemma, rispondendosi poi:
“Esattamente la stessa cosa, non sa di essere la gemma, e anch’essa si domanda cosa può provare la gemma”.
E anch’essa si chiede…
(Ne ero certo, visto che io me lo domandavo.)
… anch’essa si interroga se è l’Io reale o se semplicemente è la gemma che sta imparando a essere me.

Divenuto un dodicenne pieno di superbia e di scherno, mi presi gioco di quelle preoccupazioni infantili. Tutti avevano la gemma, salvo i membri di oscure sette religiose, e sprecare tempo su una banalità simile mi appariva una perdita di tempo. La gemma era la gemma, un fatto universale della vita, una cosa comune come una cacca. Io e i miei amici vi costruivamo battute stupide, come facevamo con le cose del sesso, per provare a noi stessi quanto eravamo saputi in quel campo.
In realtà, però, non eravamo saputi e imperturbabili come pretendevamo di essere. Un giorno, mentre giocavamo nel parco chiacchierando del più e del meno, uno della banda, il suo nome l’ho dimenticato, ma lo ricordo come una persona troppo intelligente per il suo stesso bene, si mise a domandare a ciascuno di noi: — Chi sei tu? La gemma o l’essere umano?
Noi tutti rispondemmo indignati, senza esitare: — L’essere umano!
Quando tutti ebbero risposto, lui rise e affermò: — Bene, io no. Io sono la gemma. Siete degli stronzi perdenti e mangerete merda, perché voi tutti finirete spazzati via nel cesso cosmico, ma io, io vivrò per sempre.
Lo picchiammo fino a fargli colare il sangue dal naso.

Dal racconto.”

Greg Egan

Axiomatic

“Fecero l'amore con quei loro corpi, e cervelli, quasi tradizionali. Paolo fu divertito al punto di distrarsi quando il suo sistema limbico andò in overdrive, ma ricordava ancora l'ultima volta e smorzò l'autocoscienza per arrendersi a quella strana sensazione.”

Greg Egan

Origine: I tappeti di Wang, p. 202

“Perché andare in cerca di alieni? La nostra polis ha migliaia di ecologie, un miliardo di specie di vita. Cosa sperate di trovare là fuori che non si possa creare e allevare anche a casa?”

Greg Egan

Origine: I tappeti di Wang, p. 205

“Sulla Terra c'erano polis i cui cittadini avrebbero giudicato la sua attuale struttura quasi arcaica: una coscienza dominata dalla percezione sensoria, l'illusione di possedere una forma solida, coordinate mono-temporali.”

Greg Egan

Origine: I tappeti di Wang, p. 206

“I tappeti, e altre creature se ci sono, potrebbero estinguersi prima che abbiamo imparato qualcosa di reale su di loro. Che perdita sarebbe!”

Greg Egan

Origine: I tappeti di Wang, p. 208

“Qualsiasi polis avrebbe potuto riprodurre un milione di volte la sua popolazione in un microsecondo, se avesse desiderato il vuoto onore di surclassare numericamente le altre.”

Greg Egan

Origine: I tappeti di Wang, p. 212

“Tutto prosegue in uno spazio pluridimensionale. Io ho Fourier-trasformato l'orlo in oltre un migliaio di componenti, e c'è formazione indipendente in tutti quanti.”

Greg Egan

Origine: I tappeti di Wang, pp. 228-229

“Polvere di Cantor, un insieme frattale, infinito, ma con misura zero. Non c'è solo una interruzione nella mia presenza; ce n'è un numero infinito, una serie infinita di fori sempre più piccoli, dappertutto.”

Greg Egan

Origine: Axiomatic, L'assassino infinito, p. 26

“Il gioco è una sorta di tassa: una tassa sulla stupidità. Una tassa sull'avidità. Una certa somma di denaro cambia di mano a caso, ma il guadagno va sempre da una parte sola: al governo, al padrone del casinò, agli allibratori, alla mafia. E se mai tu dovessi vincere, sappi di non avere tolto nulla a loro. Continueranno ad avere la loro parte. Avrai vinto solo contro dei poveri perdenti, nient'altro.”

Greg Egan

Origine: Axiomatic, Eugene, p. 51

“Chiunque insista che la SF deve essere prima di tutto sulla gente e in seconda sulle idee sta semplicemente pronunciando uno slogan. A volte le sole persone richieste sono il lettore e lo scrittore.”

Greg Egan

da Interview with Greg Egan in Ibn Qirtaiba, Issue 18, settembre 1996; citato in Intervista a Greg Egan http://www.intercom.publinet.it/i3.htm

Greg Egan: Frasi in inglese

“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 agaain.”

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Greg Egan

Origine: Fiction, Zendegi (2010), Ch. 1

“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.”

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Greg Egan libro Eugene

Eugene
Fiction, Axiomatic (1995)

“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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The Demon's Passage http://eidolon.net/?story=The%20Demons%20Passage Fiction

“How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?"
"That depends."
"On what?"
"On how I want to feel.”

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Greg Egan

Fiction, Permutation City (1993)

“All right. He's dead. Go ahead and talk to him.”

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Greg Egan

Fiction, Distress (1995)

“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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Greg Egan libro Oceanic

Origine: Oceanic

“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.”

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The Demon's Passage http://eidolon.net/?story=The%20Demons%20Passage, published in Eidolon (Winter 1991) Fiction

“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”

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Worthless http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/worth.htm, published in the anthology In Dreams (1992) Fiction

“The swell was gently lifting and lowering the boat. My breathing grew slower, falling into step with the creaking of the hull, until I could no longer tell the difference between the faint rhythmic motion of the cabin and the sensation of filling and emptying my lungs. It was like floating in darkness: every inhalation buoyed me up, slightly; every exhalation made me sink back down again.”

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Oceanic http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/OCEANIC/Complete/Oceanic.html, ch. 1 Fiction, Oceanic and Other Stories (2000)

“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.”

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Neighbourhood Watch http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/HORROR/NEIGHBOUR/Neighbour.html Fiction

“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.”

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Mind Vampires http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/HORROR/VAMPIRES/Vampires.html, published in Interzone (Winter 1986) Fiction

“Every night, at exactly a quarter past three, something dreadful happens on the street outside our bedroom window. We peek through the curtains, yawning and shivering in the life-draining chill, and then we clamber back beneath the blankets without exchanging a word, to hug each other tightly and hope for sound sleep before it's time to rise.

Usually what we witness verges on the mundane. Drunken young men fighting, swaying about with outstretched knives, cursing incoherently. Robbery, bashings, rape. We wince to see such violence, but we can hardly be shocked or surprised any more, and we're never tempted to intervene: it's always far too cold, for a start! A single warm exhalation can coat the window pane with mist, transforming the most stomach-wrenching assault into a safely cryptic ballet for abstract blobs of light.

On some nights, though, when the shadows in the room are subtly wrong, when the familiar street looks like an abandoned film set, or a painting of itself perversely come to life, we are confronted by truly disturbing sights, oppressive apparitions which almost make us doubt we're awake, or, if awake, sane. I can't catalogue these visions, for most, mercifully, are blurred by morning, leaving only a vague uneasiness and a reluctance to be alone even in the brightest sunshine.”

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Scatter My Ashes http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/HORROR/SCATTER/Scatter.html, published in Interzone (Spring 1988) Fiction

“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.”

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The Extra http://eidolon.net/?story=The%20Extra, published in Eidolon (Winter 1990) Fiction

“Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.”

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Greg Egan

Fiction, Distress (1995)

“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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Greg Egan

Fiction, Distress (1995)

“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.”

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Closer
Fiction, Axiomatic (1995)

“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.”

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Greg Egan

Interview with Renai LeMay http://rlemay.com.au/greg-egan-the-big-interview/ Other

“The truth is whatever you can get away with."
"No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.”

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Greg Egan

Fiction, Distress (1995)

“The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.”

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Greg Egan

New Scientist
Reviews

“Screw every known human culture.”

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Greg Egan

Fiction, Distress (1995)

“On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.”

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Oracle http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/MISC/ORACLE/Oracle.html, published in Asimov's (July 2000) Fiction

“Nobody wants to spend eternity alone.”

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Closer http://eidolon.net/?story=Closer (also published in Eidolon, Winter 1992) Fiction, Axiomatic (1995)

“[T]hat most beings would prefer to continue to exist once they exist is not in itself a good reason for bringing them into existence, it’s merely a good argument against murder.”

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Greg Egan

Comment on Scott Aaronson's "Does it come with a 14-Gyr warranty?" http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=265#comment-7403 Other

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