I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.
Greg EganIf 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.
Greg EganI 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 EganDiaspora 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