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Greg Bear was born in San Diego, California, on August 20, 1951. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from San Diego State University in 1973. At age 14, he began submitting pieces to magazines and at 15 he sold his first story to Robert Lowndes' Famous Science Fiction. It would be five years before he sold another piece, but by 23 he was selling stories regularly. He has written more than 30 science fiction and fantasy books and has won numerous awards for his work. In 1984, Hardfought and Blood Music won the Nebula Awards for best novella and novelette; Blood Music went on to win the Hugo Award. The novel version of that story, also called Blood Music, won the Prix Apollo in France. In 1987, Tangents won the Hugo and Nebula awards for best short story. He also won a Nebula in 1994 for Moving Mars and in 2001 for Darwin's Radio. Both Dinosaur Summer and Darwin's Radio have been awarded the Endeavour for best novel published by a Northwest science fiction author. He is also an illustrator and his work has appeared in Galaxy, Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Vertex, and in both hardcover and paperback books. He was a founding member of ASFA, the Association of Science Fiction Artists. His works include City at the End of Time, Hull Zero Three, The Mongoliad, Mariposa, Halo: Cryptum, Halo: Primordium and Halo: Silentium. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Eon… (more)
Eon 3,882 copies, 50 reviews
Darwin's Radio 3,460 copies, 85 reviews
Blood Music 2,673 copies, 48 reviews
The Forge of God 2,543 copies, 52 reviews
Eternity 1,940 copies, 21 reviews
Moving Mars 1,805 copies, 20 reviews
Darwin's Children 1,644 copies, 24 reviews
Anvil of Stars 1,620 copies, 18 reviews
Foundation and Chaos 1,485 copies, 15 reviews
Queen of Angels 1,385 copies, 16 reviews
Slant 1,350 copies, 20 reviews
Legacy 1,277 copies, 12 reviews
Rogue Planet 1,214 copies, 5 reviews
Hull Zero Three 833 copies, 51 reviews
The Mongoliad: Book One 831 copies, 34 reviews
Vitals 805 copies, 14 reviews
Quantico 769 copies, 25 reviews
City at the End of Time 691 copies, 34 reviews
Songs of Earth And Power 679 copies, 4 reviews
Dinosaur Summer 579 copies, 9 reviews
The Infinity Concerto (Author) 570 copies, 8 reviews
Corona (Author) 566 copies, 4 reviews
Strength of Stones 541 copies, 6 reviews
Heads (Author) 528 copies, 6 reviews
Man-Kzin Wars IV (Contributor) 527 copies, 3 reviews
Tangents 516 copies, 3 reviews
Psychlone 448 copies, 4 reviews
Hegira 400 copies, 5 reviews
The Mongoliad: Book Two 384 copies, 13 reviews
The Serpent Mage (Author) 371 copies, 4 reviews
Beyond Heaven's River 348 copies, 5 reviews
The Mongoliad: Book Three 332 copies, 11 reviews
Halo: Primordium 254 copies, 4 reviews
War Dogs 245 copies, 12 reviews
The Wind from a Burning Woman 228 copies, 4 reviews
Mariposa 219 copies, 6 reviews
New Legends (Editor; Introduction) 167 copies, 1 review
Hardfought/Cascade Point 158 copies, 3 reviews
Halo: Silentium 150 copies, 1 review
Killing Titan 126 copies, 2 reviews
The Venging 126 copies, 1 review
Eon & Eternity 94 copies
W3 Women in Deep Time 92 copies, 1 review
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Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson's Worlds (Editor) 70 copies, 2 reviews
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The Time Machine (Introduction, some editions) 16,649 copies, 327 reviews
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The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction (Contributor) 295 copies, 6 reviews
Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder (Introduction, some editions) 231 copies, 5 reviews
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New Skies: An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction (Contributor) 86 copies, 2 reviews
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Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science (Contributor) 82 copies, 1 review
New Stories from the Twilight Zone (Contributor) 77 copies
The Best of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (Contributor) 66 copies, 1 review
A Century of Fantasy, 1980-1989 (Author) 61 copies, 1 review
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Like Water for Quarks (Contributor) 7 copies
I mondi del possibile (Contributor) 7 copies
Kopernikus 6 (Author, some editions) 6 copies
Science Fiction (Contributor) 6 copies

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