Greg Bear
Writer
Illustrator
August 20, 1951 – November 19, 2022
Credits:
Books:
A Flag Full of Stars (1991); A
Forest Apart (2003); Across the Universe (1999); Allegiance (2007); Allegiance
in Exile (2013); Anvil of Stars (1992); Assignment: Eternity (1998); Bear's
Fantasies (1988); Beyond Heaven's River (1980); Beyond the Farthest Suns
(2016); Black Fire (1983); Blood Music (1985); Bloodthirst (1987); Cast No
Shadow (2011); Chain of Attack (1987); Children of the Jedi (1995); Choices of
One (2011); City at the End of Time (2008); Classic Jurassic Park (1993);
Classic Jurassic Park, Volume 2 (2011); Classic Jurassic Park, Volume 4 (2012);
Cloak of Deception (2000); Corona (1984); Country Of The Mind (1998); Crisis on
Coruscant (2010); Crosscurrent (2010); Crossroad (1994); Crucible (2013);
Cryptum (2011); Dangerous Games (2012); Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
(2006); Darksaber (1995); Darth Maul Shadow Hunter (2001); Darth Maul's Revenge
(2000); Darth Plagueis (2012); Darwin's Children (2002); Darwin's Radio (1999);
Dead Lines (2001); Death Count (1992); Death Star (2007); Death Troopers
(2009); Dinosaur Summer (1998); Double, Double (1989); Dragons of Light (1980);
Dwellers in the Crucible (1985); Early Harvest (1988); Eon (1984); Eternity
(1988); Ex Machina (2004); Excelsior: Forged in Fire (2007); Faces of Fire
(1992); Far Thoughts and Pale Gods (2016); Firestorm (1994); First Frontier
(1995); Fool's Bargain (2004); Foundation and Chaos (1998); Foundation's Fear
(1997); Foundation's Triumph (2000); From the Depths (1993); Future Visions
(2015); Ghost-Walker (1991); Grave Predictions (2016); Hackers (1996);
Hardfought (1988); Heads (1990); Hegira (1953); Home Is the Hunter (1990); Hull
Zero Three (2010); I, Jedi (1998); Ice Trap (1992); In the Name of Honor
(2002); Infinity Concerto (1984); Into the Void: Dawn of the Jedi (2013); Ishmael
(1985); Jango Fett: Bounty Hunter (2002); Jedi Trial (2004); Jurassic Park Vol.
5 (2013); Just Over the Horizon (2016); Kenobi (2013); Killing Time (1985);
Killing Titan (2015); Knight Errant (2011); Labyrinth of Evil (2005); Legacy
(1994); Like Water for Quarks (2011); Lost Souls (1982); Lost Tribe of the Sith
(2012); Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor (2008); Mariposa (2009); Maul:
Lockdown (2012); Millennium Falcon (2008); Mind Meld (1997); Mirrorshades
(1986); Mississippi Review 47 / 48 (1988); Moving Mars (1993); Mudd in Your Eye
(1997); Multiverse (2014); Murasaki (1992); Nebula Awards 49 (2015); New
Legends (1995); New Skies: An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction (2003); Omni
Visions Two (1994); Outbound Flight (2006); Paragons (1996); Pawns and Symbols
(1985); Petra (1982); Planet of Twilight (1997); Prime Directive (1991);
Primordium (2011); Psychlone (1979); Quantico (2007); Queen of Angels (1990);
Ready, Set, Podrace! (2007); Recovery (1995); Red Harvest (2010); Renegade
(1991); Riptide (2011); Rogue Planet (2000); Sanctuary (1992); Scoundrels
(2013); Scourge (2012); Shadow Games (2011); Shadow Lord (1985); Shadows of the
Empire (2011); Shatterpoint (2003); Shell Game (1993); Silentium (2013);
Sisters (1992); Slant (1997); Sleepside (1988); Songs of Earth and Power
(1984); Splinter of the Mind's Eye (1978); Strength of Stones (1981);
Survivor's Quest (2004); Take Back the Sky (2016); Tales from the New Republic
(1999); Tangents (1989); Tatooine Ghost (2003); Telling Tales: The Clarion West
30th Anniversary Anthology (2013); The Abode of Life (1982); The Adventures of
Lando Calrissian (1983); The Approaching Storm (2002); The Ascent of Wonder
(1994); The Better Man (1994); The Captain's Daughter (1995); The Cestus
Deception (2004); The Children of Kings (2010); The Collected Stories of Greg
Bear (2002); The Courtship of Princess Leia (1994); The Crystal Star (1994);
The Devils in the Desert (2011); The Disinherited (2007); The Fearful Summons
(1995); The Final Nexus (1988); The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1983);
The Forge of God (1987); The Great Starship Race (1993); The Han Solo
Adventures (1979); The IDIC Epidemic (1988); The Joy Machine (1996); The Lost
Years (1989); The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction (2006); The New Rebellion
(1996); The Patrian Transgression (1994); The Prometheus Design (1982); The
Rift (1991); The Rings of Tautee (1996); The Ruins of Dantooine (2003); The
Serpent Mage (1984); The Starship Trap (1993); The Tears of the Singers (1984);
The Three-Minute Universe (1988); The Truce at Bakura (1994); The Unfinished
Land (2019); The Venging (1983); The Vulcan Academy Murders (1984); The Wind
from a Burning Woman (1983); The Wounded Sky (1983); Third Annual Collection
(1989); Tomorrow: New Worlds of Science Fiction (1975); Traitor Winds (1994);
Triangle (1983 / 1991); Twilight's End (1996); Uhura's Song (1985); Visions of
the Future (2015); Vitals (2002); Vulcan's Glory (1989); Vulcan's Heart (1999);
War Dogs (2014); We Don't Do Weddings (1995); Web of the Romulans (1983);
Winner Lose All (2012); Women in Deep Time (2003); Year's Best SF 11 (2006);
Yoda: Dark Rendezvous (2004).
Movies and television:
Comic-Con Begins (2021); Future
Fantastic (1996); Grunge, Punk, Politics and the Fight Against Ballot Measure 9
(2017); Halo Legends / The Making of 'Halo Legends' (2010); Heroes
Manufactured: Creators Unleashed (2020); New Nightmares (1993); Prisoners of
Gravity (1993); Prophets of Science Fiction (2006); Sci-Fi Buzz (1992);
Sightings / Segment: The Sci-Fi Prophet (1994–1996); Tales from the Bridge
(2021–2022); The AckerMonster Chronicles! (2012); The Daily Show (2007); The
Twilight Zone / Segment: Dead Run (1986); Time Machine: Fantastic Voyage - The
Evolution of Science Fiction (2002).
Recommended reading:
Blood Music
by Greg Bear
ISBN-10: 1497637023
ISBN-13: 978-1497637023
Book cover description:
“A Childhood’s End for the 1980s, replacing aliens and mysterious mental evolution with the effects of genetic engineering run wild … Like Arthur Clarke, Bear goes to the limits.” – Locus.
Vergil Ulam is a brilliant but unorthodox researcher working to develop biochips – the next quantum leap in computer technology, using the complexities of cellular structure (notably DNA) as a means of information processing. But Vergil goes several steps further, and soon has produced intelligent clumps of cellular material, able to outperform rats in laboratory tests. In doing so, he has exceeded, without authorization, guidelines laid down for genetic research, and when he is found out he loses his job and is told to destroy his experimental material.
Determined to salvage something, he injects himself with part of the culture – intending to retrieve it later – and walks out of the laboratory carrying within him a seed that will develop far beyond the limits of his brilliant but blinkered imagination.
Based on his Hugo and Nebula Award winning story, Blood Music is an extraordinary novel which establishes Greg Bear among the new masters of science fiction. From its firm grounding in current research, the novel unfolds vistas of imaginative possibility, logical yet surprising, which demand comparison with the best of Arthur C. Clarke, and with Olaf Stapledon.
“Only seldom does a brilliant short story give rise to an even better novel, but in blood Music, Greg Bear has made it happen. A dazzling flight of disciplined imagination.” – Poul Anderson.