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Greg Egan Books in Order

Greg Egan has written 44 books, published between 1983 and 2024. The first book is An Unusual Angle (1983) and the newest is Morphotrophic (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
44
Published
1983–2024
Pages on record
6,355 in 20 of 44 books
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Greg Egan is an Australian science fiction writer and mathematician, born in 1961 and known above all for hard science fiction. Egan has won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Hugo Award and the Locus Award. Forty-four titles are catalogued from An Unusual Angle (1983) to Morphotrophic (2024), among them Quarantine (1992), Permutation City (1994), Distress (1995) and Diaspora (1997), with the Subjective Cosmology Cycle and Orthogonal as the two series. Short stories make up a large share of the catalogue.

How many Greg Egan books are there?

Greg Egan has 44 books, released between 1983 and 2024. They include 2 series and 38 titles listed outside any series.

Greg Egan Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 44 Greg Egan books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of An Unusual Angle by Greg Egan (1983)
  2. Cover of Axiomatic by Greg Egan (1990)
  3. Cover of Quarantine by Greg Egan, book 1 of the Subjective Cosmology Cycle (1992)
  4. Cover of Permutation City by Greg Egan, book 2 of the Subjective Cosmology Cycle (1994)
  5. Cover of Cocoon (in Luminous) by Greg Egan (1995)
  6. Cover of Our Lady Of Chernobyl by Greg Egan (1995)
  7. Cover of Distress by Greg Egan, book 3 of the Subjective Cosmology Cycle (1995)
  8. Cover of Diaspora by Greg Egan (1997)
  9. Cover of Teranesia by Greg Egan (1999)
  10. Cover of Dark Integers by Greg Egan (2007)
  11. Cover of Glory by Greg Egan (2007)
  12. Cover of Incandescence by Greg Egan (2008)
  13. Cover of Oceanic by Greg Egan (2009)
  14. Cover of Crystal Nights and Other Stories by Greg Egan (2009)
  15. Cover of Zendegi by Greg Egan (2010)
  16. Cover of The Clockwork Rocket by Greg Egan, book 1 of the Orthogonal series (2011)
  17. Cover of The Arrows of Time by Greg Egan, book 3 of the Orthogonal series (2013)
  18. Cover of The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred by Greg Egan (2016)
  19. Cover of Dichronauts by Greg Egan (2017)
  20. Cover of The Best of Greg Egan by Greg Egan (2019)
  21. Cover of Perihelion Summer by Greg Egan (2019)
  22. Cover of Dispersion by Greg Egan (2020)
  1. 1
    An Unusual Angle1983 · 200 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1983200
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  2. 2
    Axiomatic1990 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1990384
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  3. 3
    QuarantineSubjective Cosmology Cycle #11992 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1992288
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  4. 4
    Permutation CitySubjective Cosmology Cycle #21994 · 340 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994340
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  5. 5
    Luminous (in Asimov's)1995 · confirmed 1/4
    1995–
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  6. 6
    Cocoon (in Luminous)1995 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1995304
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  7. 7
    Our Lady Of Chernobyl1995 · confirmed 1/4
    1995–
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  8. 8
    DistressSubjective Cosmology Cycle #31995 · 464 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1995464
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  9. 9
    Diaspora1997 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997352
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  10. 10
    Reasons to Be Cheerful1997 · confirmed 1/4
    1997–
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  11. 11
    Blood Sisters1998 · confirmed 1/4
    1998–
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  12. 12
    The Planck Dive1998 · confirmed 1/4
    1998–
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  13. 13
    Teranesia1999 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999352
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  14. 14
    Border Guards1999 · confirmed 1/4
    1999–
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  15. 15
    Oracle2000 · confirmed 1/4
    2000–
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  16. 16
    Schild's Ladder2002 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002320
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  17. 17
    Dark Integers2007 · 232 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007232
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  18. 18
    Glory2007 · 517 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007517
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  19. 19
    Incandescence2008 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008256
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  20. 20
    Oceanic2009 · confirmed 1/4
    2009–
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  21. 22
    Zendegi2010 · 300 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2010300
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  22. 23
    The Clockwork RocketOrthogonal #12011 · 362 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011362
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  23. 24
    The Eternal FlameOrthogonal #22012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012–
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  24. 25
    Wang's Carpets2012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012–
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  25. 26
    The Arrows of TimeOrthogonal #32013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
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  26. 27
    Bit Players2013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
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  27. 28
    Seventh Sight2014 · confirmed 1/4
    2014–
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  28. 29
    The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred2016 · 89 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201689
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  29. 30
    Dichronauts2017 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017320
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Greg Egan books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Subjective Cosmology Cycle in order

3 books
  1. 1. Quarantine
  2. 2. Permutation City
  3. 3. Distress

Orthogonal in order

3 books
  1. 1. The Clockwork Rocket
  2. 2. The Eternal Flame
  3. 3. The Arrows of Time

Standalone books

38 books

38 Greg Egan titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Greg Egan books in order?

You only need to read Greg Egan books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Greg Egan

Start with An Unusual Angle (1983), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Greg Egan book?

Morphotrophic (2024) is the newest Greg Egan book released so far.

Is there a new Greg Egan book coming?

No next Greg Egan book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Greg Egan has won

Wikidata records 15 awards and 80 nominations for Greg Egan. The most recent 12 are listed here. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign-Language Short Story2010Wonfor Oceanic
  • Ignotus Award for Best Foreign Novel2010Wonfor Diaspora
  • Seiun Award for Best Translated Short Story2010Wonfor Dark Integers
  • Seiun Award for Best Translated Long Work2006Wonfor Diaspora
  • Seiun Award for Best Translated Long Work2005Wonfor Distress
  • Seiun Award for Best Translated Short Story2003Wonfor Luminous
  • Seiun Award for Best Translated Short Story2002Wonfor Reasons to Be Cheerful
  • Seiun Award for Best Translated Short Story2001Wonfor Oceanic
  • Premio Gigamesh2000Wonfor Quarantine
  • Locus Award for Best Novelette2000Wonfor Border Guards
  • Hugo Award for Best Novella1999Wonfor Oceanic
  • Locus Award for Best Novella1999Wonfor Oceanic

Greg Egan at a glance

Still publishing
Greg Egan published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Greg Egan books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
6,355 pages across the 20 of 44 books with a recorded length, a median of 312 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Greg Egan books, 16 of 44, were published in the 2010s.

What the Greg Egan books are about

22 of the 44 Greg Egan books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: science fiction is tagged on 15 of 22. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.