Greg Bear

Greg Bear (San Diego, California, August 20, 1951 – November 19, 2022), was an American science fiction writer. He was the son-in-law of another famous science fiction author, Poul Anderson.

Biography

Bear was a leading style-setting author of the 1980s. He was known for being one of the "three Bs" science fiction (along with Gregory Benford and David Brin). His work has won numerous awards, such as the Nebula Award in 1994 for Mars Moves and in 2000 for Darwin's Radio, and both the Hugo and the Nebula for Music in the blood, in 1984.

Bear's novels tend to have a very similar development: three apparently unconnected events occur in distant parts of the world and are the alarm signal of a process that generally ends up changing humanity, destroying it, or both; and she always does it from a hard science fiction perspective, trying to use well-founded and detailed scientific arguments as the main basis of the plots.

He was also a specialist in biochemistry-fiction and many of his novels contain advanced and rigorous hypothetical approaches to genetics.

In addition to those mentioned, other relevant works of his that could be highlighted are: Queen of Angels (1990), Alt 47 (1997), Foundation and Chaos (1998), Vitales (2001), and Darwin's Children (2003).

Work

Trilogy of Thistledown

1. Eon (1985)
2. Eternity (1988)
3. Legacy (1995)

Queen of Angels

1. Queen of Angels (1990)
2. Heads (1990)
3. Mars moves (1993)
4. Alt 47 (also known as Inclination1997)

Trilogy Forerunner

1. Halo: Cryptum (2011)
2. Halo: Primordium (2012)
3. Halo: Silentium (2013)

Other novels

• Hegira (1979)
• Beyond Heaven's River (1980)
• The Strength of Stones (1981)
• The Infinity Concerto (1984)
• Music in the blood (1985)
• Strength of Stones (1986)
• The Serpent Mage (1986)
• The frige of God, Spanish version of The Forge of God (1987)
• Sleepside Story (1988)
• Anvil of Stars (1992) (continued) The Forge of God)
• Songs of Earth and Power (1994) The Infinity Concerto and The Serpent Mage)
• Foundation and chaos (1998)
• Dinosaur Summer (1998)
• The radio of Darwin (1999)
• Vitals (2002)
• The children of Darwin (2002)
• Dead lines (2003)
• Quantico (2005)
• The city at the end of time (2008)
• War Dogs (2014)