greg bear

I just read, on another forum, that Greg Bear died, following heart surgery and a series of strokes. A friend received a message from Raymond Feist that Bear was on his last legs. Following up, he sent a message to Bear's spouse, Astrid, and learned from her, that following Bear's instructions...

The earlier book, The Forge of God, sets up the base conditions for this sequel but there the resemblance ends. The Forge of God takes place almost exclusively on Earth as mankind tries desperately to protect their planet from the ‘Killers’’ planet destroyers. Now the children of the survivors...

What Greg Bear does well is hard science fiction, what he doesn’t do quite so well is intimate relationships between his characters and this is no exception; the first quarter of Moving Mars is an unnecessarily long drawn out account of the angst ridden first love of its main protagonist Casseia...

In the not too distant future humanities first interstellar probe, controlled by an artificial intelligence that is just teetering on the precipice of self-awareness, is approaching Alpha Centauri after a 15 year flight. Meanwhile back on Earth a poet suddenly, with no apparent motive, kills 8...

I have the honour of having been invited to participate in an online author roundtable event alongside Greg Bear, Brenda Cooper and Robert J Sawyer. It starts on the 6th July and runs for four days at: Authors of the Roundtable: Greg Bear, Robert J. Sawyer, Brenda Cooper and Ralph Kern It's...

In Darwin’s Children Greg Bear continues and finishes the story started in Darwin’s Radio, following the SHEVA children as they progress towards puberty. Bear excels in hard science fiction and whilst the previous book was particularly ‘hard’ – at times I felt like it was a genetics text book...

City at the End of Time Greg Bear Del Rey, Aug 2008, $27I ISBN 9780345448392 In Seattle, three people (Ginny, Jack, and Max) separately and with no seeming connection see a newspaper ad that stuns them. The advertisement states: “Do you dream of a city at the end of time?” Each can answer in...

Halo: Primordium Greg Bear Tor, Jan 3 2012, $25.99 ISBN: 9780765323972 The villagers wonder who is this injured man of armor; he fell from the sky in a jar, but is not a Forerunner. He awakens severely injured and tells Vinnevra tending his wounds that he is Chakas of Erde-Tyrene. The elders...

The Mongoliad Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, Mark Teppo, E.D. deBirmingham, Erik Bear, Joseph Brassey, and Cooper Moo 47North, Apr 24 2012, $14.95 ISBN: 9781612182360 By 1241, the feral Mongol Horde led by Onghwe the dissolute Khan of Khans defeated the armies of Christendom at Legnica. The third...

Darwin’s Radio presents a fascinating near future hard science fiction story (actually it is now set in our past but never mind, it was near future when it was written). It explores the idea that our ‘junk’ DNA may actually be a semi-sentient (proactive anyway) memory of genetic strategies for...

3/5 stars Although it has the same characters and universe (multipleuniverses really) as Eon, the first book in the trilogy, this is really quite adifferent book. In some respects it was better than that first book, in othersworse. I found this book was much less confusing than Eon; itmanaged...

I read several books by Bear in the 1980s and 90s, but the only ones I kept on my shelf were the Songs of Earth and Power duology: The Infinity Concerto and The Serpent Mage. This is rather curious as these are fantasies, rather than the SF which I normally read and which Bear normally writes...

This is the sequel to Bear's Forge of God though its quite feasible to read each as a standalone-they bear very little relation to each other! Basically this is a space opera kind of story, very different to the Earth-based story of Forge, where the descendants of the first book are set on a...

I've read many post-apocalyptic stories, but this is the first pre-apocalyptic book I've encountered! And its a good un. Written in 1987 and set in the mid 90s, after Jupiter's moon Europa disappears a strange object appears in the American desert resembling a cinder cone, and next to it is...

Anyone here like Greg Bear? I've not read any of his before, but I've started Eon, and I'm very much enjoying it. Big ideas, nicely written. Reminds me a little, with regard to style, of Kim Stanley Robinson perhaps. What do you like by him? Or dislike?

This is my first post. I am a big fan of Science Fiction - looking forward to learning lots on this forum. At the moment I am reading "Eon" and really enjoying it. I am a massive fan of Philip K. Dick and Niven and Pournelle. I've just read "Solaris" which was great. Hoping to meet some people...

I couldn't find a thread for this author and, as I'm reading one of his books right now, I thought I'd start one. I'm reading "Eon", No. 50 in the SF Masterworks series. I'm only 150 pages in (it's quite a long novel at around 500 pages) so I don't have too much to say about it at the moment...

I got this book at a secondhand store for el cheapo. I liked Eon, is this one any good, I know it's classed as a thriller and not SF but it seems to have SF elements in it. Anyone read it? What are your thoughts on it?

Hey everyone, New here...I just read The Forge of God by Greg Bear, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. The beginning was a bit odd...winged alien and boxy robots and other hokey seeming stuff...but it quickly got better and the apocalyptic end to it was enjoyable. I'm just wondering what you all...

What, no Greg Bear in the "authors" section? For shame... Seriously, Bear is on my "read sight-unseen" list. A "big idea" writer without a doubt; Forge of God and Anvil of Stars were stunning.