Greg Egan

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.

I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.

I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.