The Collected Stories of Greg Bear

reg Bear is one of the greatest science fiction writers of the late twentieth century. His powerful voice combines the rationality of science with intensely passionate characters that can only be created by a writer who loves humanity. This collection contains Bear's earliest published fiction from the late 1960s and early 1970s as well his remarkable award-winning work from the '80s and '90s, plus all-new introductions written by the author. He's put every story into context for the reader, and provided some wonderful insights into the creative process. In a genre whose borders are shaped and defined by its short fiction, here is a collection from one of its finest practitioners.

Greg Bear sold his first short story, at the age of fifteen, to Robert Lowndes's Famous Science Fiction. Since then, he has written some twenty novels. A winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, Bear is married to Astrid Anderson, and they, and their two children, live near Seattle, Washington.

Introduction: The Blank Space

Soon, Now
Blood Music
Sisters
A Martian Ricorso
Schrödinger's Plague

The Middle Distance
Heads
The Wind from a Burning Woman
The Venging
Perihesperon
Scattershot
Plague of Conscience

Always, Never
The White Horse Child
Dead Run
Petra
Webster
Through Road, No Whither
Tangents
The Visitation
Richie by the Sea
Sleepside Story

Faraway
Judgment Engine
The Fall of the House of Escher
The Way of All Ghosts
MDIO Ecosystems Increase Knowledge of DNA Languages (2215 C.E.)
Hardfought

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