Talk:Greg Egan Wiki

My old notes
I had this in a (deliberately silly) private wiki between me and my boyfriend that I sort of kind of fleetingly maintained. It was a single page and it looked roughly like this:


 * Greg Egan is secretly from the future and he writes about it. He also writes about other futures, clearly to distract from his true identity.
 * Universes:
 * Eganverse: The universe with Qusps, Exoselves and Mediators. Humans are the only known sapient species.
 * Permutation City Set near-future (~2050). Exoself namedrop.
 * Singleton Set shortly after Permutation City. Qusp origins.
 * Oracle Set after Singleton, semantically, but involves time-travel to before Permutation City, where it buds off into a different universe by necessity.
 * Schild's Ladder Set in ~23 000. Whole nine yards.
 * Amalgamverse: There are several sapient species. The Aloof inhabit the galaxy's Bulge and refuse all communication. The Amalgam the rest of the galaxy, forming a patchwork of these species. It is quite clear that this is not an Eganverse future chiefly because the inventor (Ndoli) of their Qusp-equivalent (the jewel) does not coincide with the Eganverse one.
 * Learning To Be Me references the Ndoli jewel (first of the lot, chronologically)
 * Closer references the Ndoli jewel (second of the lot, chronologically)
 * Then, from this point on, chronology is uncertain:
 * Incandescence
 * Riding The Crocodile
 * Border Guards references the Ndoli jewel
 * Distressverse: Greenhouse refugees, DNA resequencing, "El Nido".
 * Distress
 * The Moat
 * Chaff
 * Diasporaverse: Polises are a thing.
 * Diaspora Set around the year 3 000 at the beginning of the book.
 * The Planck Dive
 * Quarantine Quarantining occurs in 2034. Priming is a thing.
 * Caress Set in 2050. Priming is a thing, but there is no mention of a quarantine like in Quarantine... and it's a pretty big deal, so!
 * Caress Set in 2050. Priming is a thing, but there is no mention of a quarantine like in Quarantine... and it's a pretty big deal, so!

-pinkgothic (talk) 00:00, January 13, 2014 (UTC)