Gregory Dale Bear (born August 20, 1951) is a science fiction author and more recently an author of mainstream novels. His work has covered themes of galactic conflict (Forge of God books), artificial universes (Eon series), consciousness and cultural practices (Queen of Angels), and accelerated evolution (Blood Music, Darwin's Radio, and Darwin's Children). Bear, Gregory Benford, and David Brin also wrote a trilogy of prequel novels to Isaac Asimov's famous Foundation trilogy with Bear credited for the middle book in the trilogy. is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Location of San Diego within San Diego County Coordinates: , Country United States State California County San Diego Founded July 16, 1769 Incorporated March 27, 1850 Government  - Mayor Jerry Sanders  - City Attorney Michael Aguirre  - City Council Scott Peters Kevin Faulconer Toni Atkins Tony Young Brian Maienschein Donna Frye Jim Madaffer... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... A literary genre is one of the divisions of literature into genres according to particular criteria such as literary technique, tone, or content. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Speculative fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926–July 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author of the genres Golden Age. ... is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Note that this partial list contains some authors whose works of fantastic fiction would today be called science fiction, even if they predate, or did not work in that genre. ... The Forge of God (1987) is a science fiction novel by Greg Bear that gives a convincing account of an alien attack on Earth accomplished through misdirection and the use of self-replicating von Neumann machines. ... The Way fictional universe is a trilogy of science fiction novels and one short story by Greg Bear. ... Blood Music is a science fiction novel by Greg Bear (ISBN 0-7434-4496-5). ... Darwins Radio is a 1999 science fiction novel by Greg Bear. ... Gregory Benford (born January 30, 1941 in Mobile, Alabama) is an American science fiction author and physicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. ... Glen David Brin, Ph. ... Isaac Asimov (January 2?, 1920?[1] – April 6, 1992), IPA: , originally Исаак Озимов but now transcribed into Russian as Айзек Азимов) was a Russian-born American Jewish author and professor of biochemistry, a highly successful and exceptionally prolific writer best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

Bear was born in San Diego, California. From 1968 to 1973 he attended San Diego State University, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1975, he married Christina M. Nielson, but they divorced in 1981. He remarried in 1983, to Astrid Anderson, the daughter of science fiction author Poul Anderson. They have two children, Erik and Alexandra. Erik is currently a Painting and Drawing major at the University of Washington. They live outside of Seattle, Washington. Nickname: Location of San Diego within San Diego County Coordinates: , Country United States State California County San Diego Founded July 16, 1769 Incorporated March 27, 1850 Government  - Mayor Jerry Sanders  - City Attorney Michael Aguirre  - City Council Scott Peters Kevin Faulconer Toni Atkins Tony Young Brian Maienschein Donna Frye Jim Madaffer... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. ... San Diego State University (SDSU), founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, is the largest and oldest higher education facility in the greater San Diego area (generally the City and County of San Diego), and is part of the California State University system. ... A B.A. issused as a certificate Bachelor of Arts (B.A., BA or A.B.), from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus is an undergraduate bachelors degree awarded for either a course or a program in the liberal arts or the sciences, or both. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926–July 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author of the genres Golden Age. ... A male Caucasian toddler child A child (plural: children) is a young human. ... “Seattle” redirects here. ... Official language(s) English Capital Olympia Largest city Seattle Area  Ranked 18th  - Total 71,342 sq mi (184,827 km²)  - Width 240 miles (385 km)  - Length 360 miles (580 km)  - % water 6. ...

Work

The scientific details in his work are such that he is often classified as a hard science fiction author. Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by an emphasis on scientific or technical detail, or on scientific accuracy, or on both. ...

Bear often addresses major questions in contemporary science and culture with fictional solutions. For example, The Forge of God offers an explanation for the Fermi paradox, supposing that the galaxy is filled with potentially predatory intelligences, and that those young civilizations which survive are those which do not attract the attention of the predators — by staying quiet. In Queen of Angels Bear examines crime, guilt and punishment in society, framing these questions around an examination of consciousness and awareness, including the emergent self-awareness of highly-advanced computers in communication with humans. The Forge of God (1987) is a science fiction novel by Greg Bear that gives a convincing account of an alien attack on Earth accomplished through misdirection and the use of self-replicating von Neumann machines. ... A graphical representation of the Arecibo message - Humanitys first attempt to use radio waves to communicate its existence to alien civilizations The Fermi paradox is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack of evidence for or contact with... Queen of Angels is a novel written by Greg Bear. ...

One of Bear's favorite themes is reality as a function of observers. In Blood Music reality becomes unstable as the number of observers — trillions of intelligent single-cell organisms — spirals higher and higher. Both Anvil of Stars — a sequel to The Forge of God — and Moving Mars postulate a physics based on information exchange between particles, capable of being altered at the "bit level". (Bear has credited the inspiration for this idea to Frederick Kantor's 1967 treatise, "Information Mechanics.") In Moving Mars this knowledge is used to remove Mars from the solar system and transfer it to an orbit around a distant star.

Blood Music (first published as a short story in 1983, and expanded to a novel in 1985) has also been credited as being the first account of nanotechnology in science fiction. More certainly, the short story is the first in science fiction to describe microscopic medical machines, and to treat DNA as a computational system, capable of being reprogrammed--that is, expanded and modified. In later works, beginning with Queen of Angels and continuing with its sequel, Slant, Bear gives a detailed description of a near-future nanotechnological society. This historical sequence continues with Heads — which may contain the first description of a so-called "quantum logic computer" — and with Moving Mars. This sequence also charts the historical development of self-awareness in AIs, with its continuing character, Jill, inspired in part by Robert A. Heinlein's self-aware computer Mycroft in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of hard science fiction. ... The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress cover The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a 1966 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a lunar penal colonys revolt against rule from Earth. ...

More recent works such as the Darwin's Radio/Darwin's Children pair of novels, which deal with the impact of a strange disease which appears to drive evolutionary transitions, stick closely to the known facts of molecular biology of viruses and evolution. While some fairly speculative ideas are entertained (it is after all, fiction) they are introduced in such a rigorous and disciplined way that Darwin's Radio gained praise in the science journal Nature. The term disease refers to an abnormal condition of an organism that impairs function. ... Molecular biology is the study of biology at a molecular level. ... Groups I: dsDNA viruses II: ssDNA viruses III: dsRNA viruses IV: (+)ssRNA viruses V: (-)ssRNA viruses VI: ssRNA-RT viruses VII: dsDNA-RT viruses A virus (from the Latin noun virus, meaning toxin or poison) is a microscopic particle (ranging in size from 20 - 300 nm) that can infect the... This article is about biological evolution. ... Nature is one of the most prominent scientific journals, first published on 4 November 1869. ...

While most of Bear's work is science fiction, two of his early works, The Infinity Concerto and The Serpent Mage, which are now published together as one novel Songs of Earth and Power, are clearly fantasies, and Psychlone is horror. Dead Lines, which straddles the line between science fiction and fantasy was described by Bear as a "high-tech ghost story" (interview, Fiction Writers of the Monterey Peninsula). First and foremost, Bear is an author of works of speculative fiction that are intended to entertain, edify, and inspire, and the sheer audacity of his scope and vision, as well as the expertise and intelligence that he has exhibited throughout his career, have made him one of science fiction's most respected authors. He has received many accolades, including five Nebula awards and two Hugo awards for science fiction. New readers wanting to familiarize themselves with his writing could start with the award winners from the list below. Blood Music, Moving Mars, and Darwin's Radio serve as a fine introduction to Greg Bear's body of work. Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Smaug in his lair: an illustration for the fantasy The Hobbit Fantasy is a genre of art that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. ... Speculative fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

Bibliography

Collection of Short Stories

• The Wind from a Burning Woman (1983)
• Early Harvest (February 1988)
• Tangents (1989)
• The Venging (1992)
• Bear's Fantasies (1992)
• W3 Women in deep time (2003)
• Sleepside: The Collected Fantasies (November 2005)

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Darwin

• Darwin's Radio (1999) (winner 2000 Nebula award for best novel and 2000 Endeavour Award)
• Darwin's Children (2003)

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The Eon Series

• Eon (1985)
• Eternity (1988)
• Legacy (1995)

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The Forge of God series

• The Forge of God (1987)
• Anvil of Stars (1992)

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Second Foundation Series

• Foundation and Chaos (1998) (Second Foundation series: book 2)

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Songs of Earth and Power

• The Infinity Concerto (1984)
• The Serpent Mage (1986)
• Songs of Earth and Power (1994 - combines The Infinity Concerto and The Serpent Mage)

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Star Trek: The Original Series

• Corona (1984)

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Man-Kzin Wars

• The Man Who Would Be Kzin (with S.M. Stirling)

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Star Wars

• Rogue Planet (2000)

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Queen of Angels

A group of novels featuring a shared history and some common characters.

• Queen of Angels (1990)
• Heads (1990)
• Moving Mars (1993) (won the 1994 Nebula award for best novel)
• / (aka Slant) (1997)

Queen of Angels is a novel written by Greg Bear. ... See also: 1989 in literature, other events of 1990, 1991 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1989 in literature, other events of 1990, 1991 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Moving Mars is a science fiction novel written by Greg Bear (ISBN 0812524802). ... See also: 1992 in literature, other events of 1993, 1994 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1996 in literature, other events of 1997, 1998 in literature, list of years in literature. ...

Non-series Novels

• Psychlone (1979)
• Hegira (1979)
• Beyond Heaven's River (1980)
• The Strength of Stones (1981)
• Blood Music (1985) (won the 1984 Nebula award for best novella, and the Hugo award)
• Sleepside Story (1988)
• New Legends (1995)
• Dinosaur Summer (1998) (winner 1999 Endeavour Award)
• Country of the Mind (June 1998)
• Vitals (2002)
• Dead Lines (2004)
• Quantico (2005)

See also: 1978 in literature, other events of 1979, 1980 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Hegira is a science fiction novel by Greg Bear (ISBN ???). It deals with themes including cyclic time, artifical intelligence, artifical life and artifical structures of planetary scale. ... See also: 1978 in literature, other events of 1979, 1980 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1979 in literature, other events of 1980, 1981 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1980 in literature, other events of 1981, 1982 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Blood Music is a science fiction novel by Greg Bear (ISBN 0-7434-4496-5). ... See also: 1984 in literature, other events of 1985, 1986 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The Nebula is an award given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction published in the United States during the two previous years (see rolling eligibility below). ... A novella is a narrative work of prose fiction somewhat longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. ... The 2005 Hugo Award with base designed by Deb Kosiba. ... See also: 1987 in literature, other events of 1988, 1989 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1994 in literature, other events of 1995, 1996 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1997 in literature, other events of 1998, 1999 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The Endeavour Award announced annually at OryCon in Portland, Oregon is awarded to a distinguished SCIENCE FICTION or FANTASY BOOK written by a Pacific Northwest author or authors and published in the previous year. ... See also: 1997 in literature, other events of 1998, 1999 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Vitals is a 2002 science fiction/techno-thriller novel written by Greg Bear. ... See also: 2001 in literature, other events of 2002, 2003 in literature, list of years in literature. ... // Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghes The Last Crossing to be read across the nation. ...

External links

• Greg Bear's Official Site
• Darwin's Radio Review
• Interview at SFFWorld.com
• All of Greg Bear's audio interviews on the podcast The Future And You (in which he describes his expectations of the future)
• Greg Bear at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• An excerpt from Slant (1997)
• The 20th challenge of the society of digital artists, which made use of EON. In the about part it includes the chapters 1, 2, 10 and 33 [1].
• Quantico: Official Website
• Interview with Greg Bear Conducted by Murder and Mystery Books 101