Egan writes works in the genre of hard science fiction, preferring topics related to mathematics, quantum mechanics, the nature of consciousness, genetics, virtual reality, artificial intelligence and the relationship between rational materialism and religion. Due to some general specificity and overload of the scientific component (such a branch in NF is even called "hardest science fiction"), Egan's work resonates, of course, not with all science fiction lovers, and it, one might say, has not yet received the full recognition that it certainly deserves...