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	Greg Bear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gregory Dale Bear (born August 20, 1951) is a science fiction author.
		While some fairly speculative ideas are entertained (it is after all, fiction) they are introduced in such a rigorous and disciplined way within the context of the cutting edge of those disciplines, that Darwin's Radio gained praise in the science journal Nature.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greg_Bear (414 words)

	Encyclopedia: Greg Bear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		Science fiction author Greg Bear was born in San Diego, California, on August 20, 1951.
		Greg Bear is the author of more than thirty books of science fiction and fantasy.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Greg-Bear (1917 words)

	An Analysis of Greg Bear's Blood Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Greg Bear's Blood Music, first published in 1985, brings a twist to the stereo-typical cyberpunk novel with the exploration of the eminent destruction of mankind as we know it today and perpetuation of the fear of mass destruction by technological advancements.
		As contemporary literature is a response to the concerns and values of society, Bear's novel echoes the fear of a nation in his portrayal of a society transformed and stripped of all human characteristics.
		Not only does Bear create a representation of a varied society reaction to technology, he creates a mood of acceptance of the blood music and leaves the reader with the idea that the destruction of mankind is not such a bad thing.
	www.uta.edu /english/bek/cy-fi/blood.html (1269 words)

	Greg Bear
		Greg Bear was born August 20, 1951 in San Diego, CA, and travelled extensively throughout his youth.
		Bear is also known for his work with Gregory Benford and David Brin on the Second Foundation Trilogy, adding to the legacy of Foundation author Isaac Asimov.
		Greg Bear currently serves on the advisory board of Seattle Washington’s new Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame.
	www.nndb.com /people/724/000023655 (514 words)

	Greg Bear: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gregory Dale Bear (born August 20, 1951) is a science fiction author (additional info and facts about science fiction author).
		His work has covered themes of galactic conflict (Forge of God (additional info and facts about Forge of God) books), artificial universes (Eon (An immeasurably long period of time) series) and accelerated evolution (Blood Music (additional info and facts about Blood Music), Darwin's Radio and Darwin's Children).
		Bear was born in San Diego, California (additional info and facts about San Diego, California).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gr/greg_bear.htm (684 words)

	Must have Books - Greg Bear
		Extending from the near future to the Universe's end, Greg Bear paints a vision of Humanity (extended to all intelligentlife forms)at it's best and worst, and does it with very sympathetic characters, extensive and involved plots, and ingenious predictions on technology and evolution.
		Bear writes with a style uncannily similar to Foundation creator Isaac Asimov's, and he even manages to incorporate some of Asimov's own writing in the novel.
		Aside from the trial, Bear also focuses on the nearly immortal robots that serve the Foundation, including R. Daneel Olivaw, who is set to guide one of the Foundation's first great undertakings.
	www.geocities.com /hwarp/Books/Bear.html (1440 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Slant
		Greg Bear was born in San Diego, California, in 1951.
		With a father in the navy, Greg Bear had travelled to Japan, the Philippines, Alaska and all over the US by the age of 12.
		Greg Bear, recently selected as Author Guest of Honour for the World Science Fiction Convention in Philadelphia in 2001, shows himself a master of innovative thought and predictive science in the best tradition of science fiction.
	www.sfsite.com /09a/sl40.htm (875 words)

	Colin Glassey on Greg Bear
		Greg Bear and David Brin share more than last names that start with B. They are two of the best SF writers currently active.
		Bear is not quite as good a Brin, he has a tendency to let his stories run away from him.
		This was Bear's first big success, a short story about nano-technology before nano-technology was talked about (actually Drexler was slightly ahead of Bear with a technical paper, and Feynman was ahead of them both).
	www.teleologic.com /crghome/bear.html (683 words)

	A Conversation With Greg Bear Writers Write -- The IWJ
		Greg Bear is one of modern science fiction's great writers.
		Bear's latest work is Darwin's Radio (Del Rey, 1999), a fascinating scientific thriller about a dramatic change in human evolution and its impact on the human population, society and government.
		Greg Bear has also worked as a bookseller and lectured for the San Diego City Schools, acting as a roving teacher and conducting short classes on ancient history, the history of science, and science fiction/fantasy.
	www.writerswrite.com /journal/dec99/bear.htm (2108 words)

	Bear Attacks and Other Stories by Alaskan Author Larry Kaniut
		Greg thought the bear would go downhill, so he ran to his right down the hill to intercept the bear and to pump a few rounds into him.
		Greg goes on, "So he'd stick that needle in and pull a notch up and I'd faint." He'd come to and his brother was doing it again, and his hands were trembling.
		Greg would say, "For goodness sake, you're gonna punch my guts and kill me. Be careful." But his brother told Greg he just couldn't do it, and collapsed in tears.
	www.kaniut.com /store/some_bears_kill_sample.html (2379 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Foundation and Chaos
		Bear introduces several factions of robots, most notably the Giskardians who, like Daneel, have espoused the Zeroth Law that Asimov postulated at the end of Robots and Empire, and the Calvinians, robots who still are ruled by the three laws.
		Bear introduces a lot of back story about these factions, possibly setting the scene for another series of novels set in an earlier period of galactic history.
		While Bear's suppositions on the role of robots in the Foundation universe are interesting and have the ability to carry into the third book, Benford's introduction of Voltaire and Joan of Arc still seem extremely out of place in Asimov's world.
	www.sfsite.com /04b/found31.htm (806 words)

	FWOMP Interview with Greg Bear
		Greg Bear: That would have been “Destroyers,” published in Robert A. Lowndes’s FAMOUS SCIENCE FICTION in 1967, when I was sixteen years old.
		Greg Bear: No. Usually my ideas come in pairs or triplets, widely spaced, and have to be put together with the right companion to make a complete story or novel.
		Greg Bear: Other than working with Isaac Asimov and George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry in their universes, but without their direct participation, no. I did work with a round robin of authors in MURASAKI.
	www.fwomp.com /interview_gregbear.htm (1362 words)

	Greg Bear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Greg Bear was born in San Diego, California.
		His father was in the US Navy, and by the time he was twelve years old, Greg had lived in Japan, the Philippines, Alaska - where at the age of ten he completed his first short story - and various other parts of the US.
		Greg Bear has been attributed to presaging the interest in Nanotech with his short story Blood Music, and his novella, Heads, has been accused of predicting both quantum computers and the Bose-Einstein Condensate.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/gregbear.html (1081 words)

	Greg Bear: Darwin's Radio - an infinity plus review
		These perils have loomed quite prominently of late: Bear's two novels published in 1998, Dinosaur Summer and Foundation and Chaos, were both inherently conservative ventures, loose pastiches of Conan Doyle and Asimov, inexorably governed by Formula even as exuberance manfully showed through.
		In addition, Bear built into Slant's structure the point that the book's central conspiracy, one by ultra-wealthy WASPs to sabotage the new world order and outlive the chaos of breakdown by sleeping through it in giant pyramids, was too risible to be anything more than a temporary nuisance.
		This is surely Bear's intention: he so acutely contrasts these passages of emergent wonder (the wonder endemic to good SF) with the turgid, befuddled, paranoid-bureaucratic mentality of the thriller genre he ostentatiously apes for so much of Darwin's Radio.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/darwinr.htm (907 words)

	Greg Bear, Foundation and Chaos
		But Bear, building on modifications Asimov himself made in his later Foundation novels, makes this only a surface narrative, a misleading veneer, beneath which conspiracies of robots and Imperial bureaucrats contend to shape reality.
		While achieving much of the literary texture of authentic Asimov, Bear rejects Asimovian determinism, suggesting finally that Psychohistory, one of SF’s famous concepts, is of limited scope, simply a transitional arrangement before humankind’s evolutionary apotheosis into new, free, and co-operative forms.
		Bear’s systematic re-orientation of Asimov’s familiar props and techniques, constituting his respectful yet penetrating interrogation of the old master, begins to redeem the sharecrop phenomenon.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Rampart/2547/skys.htm (528 words)

	Science Fiction Weekly Interview
		Bear's early novels were exercises in high imaginative aspiration that, despite some technical limitations, very definitely prefigured the achievements of his mature works.
		Bear's works from the last few years cogently explore evolutionary themes through the medium of the near-future thriller.
		Bear: Modern biology is experiencing an incredible growth of information, but theory is lagging—in part because of a relatively conservative scientific culture.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue306/interview.html (3528 words)

	Amazon.com: Darwin's Radio: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Greg Bear has spent much of his recent career evoking awe in the deep reaches of space, but he made his name with Blood Music, a novel of nanotechnology that crackled with intelligence.
		Bear is one of the modern masters of hard SF, and this story marks a return to the kind of cutting-edge speculation that made his Blood Music one of the genre's all-time classics.
		Bear does something that science fiction rarely does - he expands scientific ideas, and he should be commanded for that.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345435249?v=glance (2125 words)

	: RevolutionSF - The Collected Stories of Greg Bear : Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bear also contributes an introduction and, in some cases, an afterword for each of the stories.
		Of course, the meat of the collection is the stories themselves and in most we see Greg Bear at his best—disturbing, original, and memorable.
		This bewildered hero becomes our window onto the final hours; Bear seems to love this kind of character, the everyman or everywoman trapped in a future they are ill-equipped to fully comprehend yet struggling to survive.
	www.revolutionsf.com /article.html?id=1603 (1152 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Eon (S.F.Masterworks S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		However, sometimes Bear's descriptive passages become so technical that I actually found it hard to visualise what he was describing (eg: the first visit to the singularity).
		Written in 1985, Bear's future world has become a kind of 'alternate future' since perhaps no-one could have predicted that the abrupt fall of the USSR and the smashing down of the Berlin wall.
		Bear cleverly sets up the East/West ideological divides while Nuclear War destroys the Earth in the background, before bringing in the people of Earth's future.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0575073160 (978 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: Eon
		Few science fiction authors today are as good at the literature of ideas as Greg Bear.
		Bear was first published in the 1960s but really exploded onto the science fiction scene in 1985 with two entirely different and original novels, Blood Music and Eon.
		Legacy is a bold and imaginative novel that well illustrates Greg Bear's sweep of ambitious vision.
	www.bookpage.com /9606bp/fiction/eonandlegacy.html (561 words)

	Powell's Books - The Forge of God by Greg Bear
		This remarkable novel of alien invasion shows off Bear's talents to their full effect: science-fictional extrapolation that is stunningly believable and characters who are real and affecting in their heroism and sacrifice.
		Greg Bear sold his first short story, at the age of fifteen, to Robert Lowndes's Famous Science Fiction.
		A winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, Bear is married to Astrid Anderson, and they, and their two children, live near Seattle, Washington.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-0765301075-2 (185 words)

	Amazon.com: Eon : A Novel (Eon): Books: Greg Bear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Besides being a very entertaining and somewhat epic near-future space adventure, Greg Bear's novel "Eon", having been published in 1985, will likely be very interesting to anyone old enough to have experienced and appreciated the last years of the Cold War in the 1980s.
		Greg Bear's Eon is set in the twenty-first century.
		Greg Bear has an excellent storyline here, but the problem is that he doesn't have the faintest idea how to write a flowing story.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812520475?v=glance (2306 words)

	Random House \| Books \| Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
		Greg Bear's powerfully written, brilliantly inventive novels combine cutting-edge science and unforgettable characters, illuminating dazzling new technologies--and their dangers.
		Bear's novel is frighteningly believable with a lot of clearly explained hard science, but the personal struggles of the well-realized characters keep everything on a human level."
		Greg Bear is the author of twenty-four books, which have been translated into a dozen languages.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0-345-42333-X (469 words)

	Review: Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I thought some of the prose and dialog was clunky, and I had a problem with a couple of the scientific premises of the story, but I still managed to find this a quick and entertaining read.
		First, Bear claims many times that the likeliest cause of the spontaneous expression of these viruses is environmental stress from modern living.
		The other bothersome thing was how Bear pointed to gaps in the fossil record to provide evidence for his claim that current notions of evolution are wrong.
	www.urbanophile.com /arenn/sf/reviews/darwins-radio.html (678 words)

	Greg Bear Message Board
		I am reading my first Greg Bear book and I hope there is some family influence.
		My favorite experience with Greg Bear is in his very old duo of books called "The Infinity Concerto" and "The Serpent Mage".
		Greg Bear truly possesses an indefinable form of genius when he writes.
	www.allreaders.com /board.asp?BoardID=2744 (277 words)

	Dead Lines, Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear - read reviews
		Each has their own community of trusted friends and family, political connections and professional work relations, so there is a lot to keep track of, but Greg Bear keeps the story moving and the connections fresh for us.
		I've been wanting to add Greg Bear's Eon as a highly recommended novel for sometime now, but it had been such a long time since I read the novel and I really didn't know what to say, outside of I just remember really enjoying reading it.
		Greg Bear is the author of twenty-eight books of science fiction and fantasy.
	www.mostlyfiction.com /scifi/bear.htm (2680 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: The Forge of God / Greg Bear
		The Forge of God is Greg Bear's best novel and one of the best, if not the best, alien invasion novels written since H.G. Wells got the ball rolling with War of the Worlds.
		Most interesting is his depiction of humanity's reaction to news of its upcoming extinction; whereas the clichéd approach would lead towards riots, chaos, and destruction, Bear very convincingly portrays us exhibiting everything from plain old denial to overwrought religious revivalism that actually embraces the upcoming apocalypse as the will of God.
		It is particularly interesting that Bear chose not to identify firmly either the Earth's destroyers or its rescuers.
	www.sfreviews.net /forgeofgod.html (632 words)

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