Makoto Yamagishi Makoto Yamagishi i(A121732 works by) (birth name: 山岸・真)
Born: Established: 1962 ;
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon ビット・プレイヤ Bit Players and Other Stories Greg Egan , Makoto Yamagishi (editor), Makoto Yamagishi (translator), Tokyo : Hayakawa-shobō , 2019 24040293 2019 selected work short story science fiction
3 4 y separately published work icon The Clockwork Rocket Greg Egan , San Francisco : Night Shade Books , 2011 Z1842996 2011 single work novel science fiction

'In Yalda's universe, light has no universal speed and its creation generates energy. On Yalda's world, plants make food by emitting their own light into the dark night sky. As a child, Yalda witnesses one of a series of strange meteors, the Hurtlers, that are entering the planetary system at an immense, unprecedented speed. It becomes apparent that her world is in imminent danger–and the task of dealing with the Hurtlers will require knowledge and technology far beyond anything her civilization has yet achieved! Only one solution seems tenable: if a spacecraft can be sent on a journey at sufficiently high speed, its trip will last many generations for those on board, but it will return after just a few years have passed at home. The travelers will have a chance to discover the science their planet urgently needs, and bring it back in time to avert disaster.' (Trove record)

4 5 y separately published work icon Zendegi Greg Egan , London : Gollancz , 2010 Z1730411 2010 single work novel science fiction 'Nasim is a young computer scientist, hoping to work on the Human Connectome Project: a plan to map every neural connection in the human brain. But funding for the project is cancelled and Nasim ends up devoting her career to Zendegi, a computerised virtual world used by millions of people. Fifteen years later, a revived Connectome Project has published a map of the brain. Zendegi is facing fierce competition from its rivals and Nasim decides to exploit the map to fill the virtual world with better Proxies: the bit-players that bring its crowd scenes to life. As controversy rages over the nature and rights of the Proxies, a friend with terminal cancer begs Nasim to make a Proxy of him, so some part of him will survive to help raise his orphaned son. But Zendegi is about to become a battlefield...' (Publisher's blurb)
3 14 y separately published work icon Incandescence Greg Egan , London : Gollancz , 2008 Z1517423 2008 single work novel science fiction

'A million years from now, the galaxy is divided between the vast, cooperative meta-civilisation known as the Amalgam, and the silent occupiers of the galactic core known as the Aloof. The Aloof have long rejected all attempts by the Amalgam to enter their territory, but have occasionally permitted travellers to take a perilous ride as unencrypted data in their communications network, providing a short-cut across the galaxy's central bulge. When Rakesh encounters a traveller, Lahl, who claims she was woken by the Aloof on such a journey and shown a meteor full of traces of DNA, he accepts her challenge to try to find the uncharted world deep in the Aloof's territory from which the meteor originated.

'Roi and Zak live inside the Splinter, a world of rock that swims in a sea of light they call the Incandescence. Living on the margins of a rigidly organised society, they seek to decipher the subtle clues that might reveal the true nature of the Splinter. In fact, the Splinter is orbiting a black hole, which is about to capture a neighbouring star, wreaking havoc. As the signs of danger grow, Roi, Zak, and a growing band of recruits struggle to understand and take control of their fate. Meanwhile, Rakesh is gradually uncovering their remote history, and his search for the lost DNA world ultimately leads him to a civilisation trapped in cultural stagnation, and startling revelations about the true nature and motives of the Aloof.' (Publisher's blurb)

3 TAP Greg Egan , 1995 single work novella science fiction
— Appears in: Asimov's Science Fiction , November vol. 19 no. 12-13 1995; (p. 100-132) Crystal Nights and Other Stories 2009; (p. 81-118)

— Appears in: Oceanic 2009; (p. 343-394)
7 9 y separately published work icon Diaspora Greg Egan , London : Millennium , 1997 Z55515 1997 single work novel science fiction 'Set in the thirtieth century, Egan's novel has sentient software on centre stage, with humans as bit players. Egan has always placed ideas above characterisation, and readers of this novel almost need a degree in physics and information technology to follow it. Nonetheless, perseverance will be rewarded, as Egan explores spatial dimensions while trying to define what is humanity, especially when humanity is not involved' (Colin Steele, SF Commentary No 77, p.54).

9 12 y separately published work icon Distress Greg Egan , London : Millennium , 1995 Z381122 1995 single work novel science fiction

Distress is 'set in 2055 when the centre of Sydney is virtually deserted, as most work and entertainment is conducted at home via broadband optical fibre networks. Egan's main character, science journalist Andrew Worth, is sent to 'Stateless', a bioengineered Pacific coral island to interview a South African Nobel Prize winner who is intending to reveal a major breakthrough in human comprehension techniques. Various competing interests, however, descend on the island and Worth becomes an unwitting agent of change. Biotechnology implants, quantum physics, voluntary autism and mutant cholera are just some of the ingredients mixed into the mystery of who wishes to kill the Nobel Laureate, and for what purpose' (Colin Steele, SF Commentary No 77, p.54).

3 y separately published work icon Reasons to be Cheerful Greg Egan , 1998 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Luminous 1998; (p. 191-227) The Year's Best : Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy : Volume 2 1998; (p. 2-49) Year's Best Science Fiction : Fifteenth Annual Collection 1998; (p. 69-94) The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction : 11th Annual Collection 1998;
1 y separately published work icon Oceanic and Other Stories 祈りの海 Greg Egan , ( trans. Makoto Yamagishi )expression Tokyo : Hayakawa-shobō , 2000 Z1909454 2000 selected work short story science fiction
5 2 Oceanic Greg Egan , 1998 single work novella science fiction
— Appears in: Strani universi 2 1999; (p. 57-110)

— Appears in: Asimov's Science Fiction , August vol. 22 no. 8 1998; (p. 13-48) The Year's Best Science Fiction : Sixteenth Annual Collection 1999; (p. 1-36) Greg Egan's Home Page 2000-; The Best of the Best Volume 2 : 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels 2007; (p. 455-490) Dark Integers and Other Stories 2008; (p. 179-232) Oceanic 2009; (p. 435-489)

— Appears in: Bifrost , October no. 20 2000; (p. 17-59) Oceanic 2009; (p. 253-320)
13 14 y separately published work icon Quarantine Greg Egan , Artarmon : Legend , 1992 Z544390 1992 single work novel science fiction

'It's late in the 21st century and bioengineering is now so common that people are able to modify their minds in any way they wish. It is an era which has been shaped by information systems so vast that security, in any form, is easily breached. Now, you can be whatever you want to be, and do whatever you want to do. On Earth anyway. One night, thirty three years ago, the stars went out. 'The Bubble' - a perfect sphere centred on the sun - appeared in the sky, isolating the solar system from the rest of the universe. For thirty-three years, humanity has lived with the religious cults and terrorism which spawned in the wake of the darkness. We are now alone. Humanity has been cut off: quarantined.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

8 15 y separately published work icon Permutation City Greg Egan , St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 1994 Z455855 1994 single work novel science fiction (taught in 2 units) 'In Permutation City Egan has said that his main goal was "to take the idea of conscious software - whether it's some kind of scanned human duplicate, or some AI created from scratch - and push it to its logical conclusion'." The story involves human identities being 'loaded into computer memory banks where they become virtual people' (Colin Steele, SF Commentary No 77, p.53).
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