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Gregory Dale Bear (born August 20, 1951) is an American science fiction and mainstream author. His work has covered themes of galactic conflict (Forge of God books), artificial universes (The Way series), consciousness and cultural practices (Queen of Angels), and accelerated evolution (Blood Music, Darwin's Radio, and Darwin's Children). His most recent work is the Forerunner Trilogy, written in the Halo universe. Greg Bear has written 44 books in total.
Bear was born in San Diego, California. He attended San Diego State University (1968–73), where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree. At the University, he was a teaching assistant to Elizabeth Chater in her course on science fiction writing, and in later years her friend.
Bear is often classified as a hard science fiction author, based on the scientific details in his work. Early in his career, he also published work as an artist, including illustrations for an early version of the Star Trek Concordance and covers for Galaxy and F&SF. He sold his first story, "Destroyers", to Famous Science Fiction in 1967.
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 young civilizations that survive are those that don't attract their attention—by staying quiet. In Queen of Angels, Bear examines crime, guilt, and punishment in society. He frames these questions around an examination of consciousness and awareness, including the emergent self-awareness of highly advanced computers in communication with humans. In Darwin's Radio and Darwin's Children, he addresses the problem of over-population with a mutation in the human genome making, basically, a new series of humans. The question of cultural acceptance of something new and unavoidable is also brought up.
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. Anvil of Stars (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 was first published as a short story (1983) and then expanded to a novel (1985). It has also been credited as 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. Its continuing character Jill was inspired in part by Robert A. Heinlein's self-aware computer Mycroft HOLMES (High-Optional, Logical, Multi-Evaluating Supervisor) in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.
Such recent works as Darwin's Radio and Darwin's Children stick closely to the known facts of molecular biology of viruses and evolution. While some fairly speculative ideas are entertained, they are introduced in such a rigorous and disciplined way that Darwin's Radio gained praise in the science journal Nature.
In 1975, he married Christina M. Nielson; they divorced in 1981. In 1983, he married Astrid Anderson, the daughter of science fiction author Poul Anderson. They have two children, Erik and Alexandra. They have resided near Seattle, Washington. Erik has trained in Bartitsu cane fighting and German longsword in Capitol Hill.
Greg Bear is a deist.
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https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16024.Greg_Bear |
The Way series
Greg Bear - Eon (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Greg Bear - Eternity (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Greg Bear - Legacy (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Forge of God series
Greg Bear - The Forge Of God (read by David Hartley-Margolin)
Greg Bear - Anvil Of Stars (read by David Hartley-Margolin)
Darwin's Radio series
Greg Bear - Darwin's Radio (read by George Guidall)
Greg Bear - Darwin's Children (read by Scott Brick)
Queen of Angels series books 1,3,4
Greg Bear - Queen Of Angels (read by George Guidall)
Greg Bear - Moving Mars (read by Sharon Williams)
Greg Bear - Slant (read by Christine Williams)
The Forerunner Saga
Greg Bear - Cryptum (read by Holter Graham)
Greg Bear - Primordium (read by Timothy Dadabo)
Greg Bear - Silentium (read by Euan Morton)
Quantum Logic series
Greg Bear - Quantico (read by Jeff Woodman)
Greg Bear - Mariposa (read by Charles Leggett)
War Dogs series book 1
Greg Bear - War Dogs (read by Jay Snyder)
Other
Greg Bear - Blood Music (read by George Guidall)
Greg Bear - Hull Zero Three (read by Dan John Miller)
Greg Bear - City At The End Of Time (read by Charles Leggett)
Greg Bear - Vitals (read by Jeff Woodman)
Greg Bear - Tangents (read by Therese Plummer and Brennan Taylor)
Greg Bear - Dead Lines (read by Jason Culp)
Greg Bear - Dinosaur Summer (read by Jim Zeiger)
Greg Bear - The Wind From A Burning Woman (read by George Guidall and Christina Moore)
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The Way series
http://rapidgator.net/file/b0fda81c7856372cc9d1b33cc304be26/Eon.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/600e348a3b8ce24ce55b52f3d247c9cc/Eternity.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/fe93c70ee11bc9e84d2be5eb13e88d64/Legacy.rar.html
Forge of God series
http://rapidgator.net/file/4414826ffce7fd07f78442ce69086ecf/The_Forge_Of_God.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6a4283f4c62c4c7bf4329af9a632ef88/Anvil_Of_Stars.rar.html
Darwin's Radio series
http://rapidgator.net/file/79357c17574934133d2c17581922b3d7/Darwins_Radio.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6a82bb38f16d5d189f7e605f1c7e7d06/Darwins_Children.rar.html
Queen of Angels series
http://rapidgator.net/file/79419028abf114ce5c20193c80212ede/Queen_Of_Angels.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/97705f9e4224045956e460c9e4cc0829/Moving_Mars.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/947075c2ec588ebba3aef20554877689/Slant.rar.html
The Forerunner Saga
http://rapidgator.net/file/0ad3779835d9d5c2a8e4b71cbc347a9e/Cryptum.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1cb6607a09d69b8acc23b8a62868fcb9/Primordium.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/efb181448946e55ca6d88341ce4b0942/Silentium.rar.html
Quantum Logic series
http://rapidgator.net/file/8039397d9d77eb0fa94aa6ebac378506/Quantico.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/fbb5700bef0546ad112d22a708901bac/Mariposa.rar.html
War Dogs series
http://rapidgator.net/file/2d68ea87d8ed0d754b72b98ad5503ae1/War_Dogs.rar.html
Other
http://rapidgator.net/file/ac6386bcdf7387c900d00989b43a3056/Blood_Music.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/570532952342903c8abb8f4c61ad8e44/Hull_Zero_Three.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c2ce43eee949729afb4ffb20f367093d/City_At_The_End_Of_Time.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/94ef7363e1c14a9e50de9c3ad296aaac/Vitals.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/7185896474d56342d90d0b3741ff2cf3/Tangents.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/0ae089a6a862a198d007f272363b9033/Dead_Lines.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/24601adbd256d3c3c50bde356d2d49d7/Dinosaur_Summer.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/011526413a27306edc36dbcb5b541f8c/The_Wind_From_A_Burning_Woman.rar.html |
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