Greg Bear

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Greg Bear (2005)

Gregory Dale Bear (born August 20, 1951 in San Diego , California ) is an American science fiction writer. He publishes under the author name Greg Bear and is the son-in-law of Poul Anderson .

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His work is about galactic conflicts (in the Forge of God books), artificial universes (in the Thistledown series) and accelerated evolution (in the novels Blood Music , The Darwin Virus and The Darwin Children ).

While the extensive and detailed account of science in his work identifies him as the author of “hard” science fiction, the plausibility of some of his scientific ideas is occasionally questioned. For example, it was suggested that it was difficult to imagine that the bacteria in blood music could process enough information to become conscious . But it has also been theorized that although the bacteria individually process hardly any information, they could develop consciousness as colonies.

In Forge of God and The Anvil of the Stars , Bear offers a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox : Young planetary civilizations can only survive if they keep quiet and do not attract the attention of destructive probes . The first part, The Forge of God, deals with the destruction of the earth by a killer civilization and the salvation of the less chosen by friendly aliens. In The Anvil of the Stars , a spaceship with youthful survivors is sent out to fulfill the galactic law and destroy the killer civilization.

More recent works, such as the two stories The Darwin Virus and The Darwin Children, deal with the influence of a viral disease that causes evolutionary transitions, and adhere closely to current findings in the molecular biology of viruses and evolution. While some fairly speculative ideas are primarily entertaining (it's fiction , after all), they are introduced in such a drastic and disciplined way on the cutting edge of these disciplines that the Darwin Virus received praise in the science magazine Nature and the first German publications in the specialist book publisher Spektrum Academic publisher published.

One aspect that runs like a thread through many of Bears' novels is the societies in which his stories take place. As a matter of course, he embeds his plot in meticulously drawn unusual social structures from the start, which the reader only becomes aware of in the course of the novel and which often makes them plausible.

While most of Bear's work is science fiction, two of his early works, The Infinity Concerto and The Serpent Mage , are more categorized as fantasy literature.

criticism

  • Michael Nagula on blood music : “The particular importance of this novel by Bear, who before and after in his works no longer deviates significantly from a visionary technicalism of classic design, lies in its obvious ambivalence. Blood music is caught between the demands of a world in which man has yet to find his place and the idea that a return to a paradise, on which every philosophy of technology is based, will be forever denied ... The biochemist Ulam saves the world on behalf of science - but by destroying it. "
  • John Sladek about God's Forge : “The book only occasionally shows weaknesses, in those places where it ignores its cinematic premises and grows into 'scientific' ... One longs for a more naive mode of viewing, for someone who just becomes aware that the devil has simply been let go and everything breaks. However, the earth continues so smoothly towards its inevitable end, and the story slips smoothly on to a surprise ending. "

Awards

0000 Nebula Award for Blood Music for Best Short Novel
0000Nebula Award for Hardfought as the best story
0000 Prix ​​Apollo for la Musique du sang ^ Blood Music
0000Prix ​​Apollo for Blood Music
  • 1987 Hugo Award for Tangents as best short story
0000Nebula Award for Tangents as the best short story
  • 1994 Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll for Moving Mars as best novel
0000 Seiun Award for Tangents in the "Foreign Short Fiction" category
0000 Premio Ignotus for Marte se mueve ( Moving Mars ) as the best foreign language novel
  • 1997 Seiun Award for Heads for best foreign language short story
  • 1999 Endeavor Award for Dinosaur Summer in the category "Distinguished Novel or Collection"
0000 Locus Award for Dinosaur Summer for best science fiction novel
  • 2000 Endeavor Award for Darwin's Radio in the category "Distinguished Novel or Collection"
0000 Prix ​​Ozone for / Slant as the best foreign language science fiction novel

bibliography

Series and cycles

The series are arranged according to the year of publication of the first part.

Thistledown

Short stories:

  • The Wind from a Burning Woman (in: Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, October 1978 )
  • The Way of All Ghosts (1999, in: Robert Silverberg (Ed.): Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction )

Eon:

  • 1 Eon (1985)
  • 2 Eternity (1988)
    • German: Ewigkeit. Translated by Winfried Petri. Heyne SF&F # 4916, 1992, ISBN 3-453-05838-0 .
  • 3 Legacy (1995)
  • Eon & Eternity (collective edition of 1 and 2; 1999)
Songs of Earth and Power / Sidhe cycle
  • The Infinity Concerto (1984)
    • German: The Song of Power. Translated by Walter Brumm. Heyne SF&F # 4382, 1987, ISBN 3-453-31384-4 .
  • The Serpent Mage (1986)
    • German: The snake magician. Translated by Walter Brumm. Heyne SF&F # 4569, 1989, ISBN 3-453-03164-4 .
  • Songs of Earth and Power (collective edition of 1 and 2; 1992)
Forge of God
  • The Forge of God (1987)
    • German: Forge of God. Translated by Winfried Petri. Heyne SF&F # 4617, 1989, ISBN 3-453-03488-0 .
  • Anvil of Stars (1992)
    • English: The anvil of the stars. Translated by Wilfried Petri. Heyne SF&F # 5510, 1996, ISBN 3-453-10946-5 .
Quantum Logic

Queen of Angels:

  • 1 Queen of Angels (1990)
    • English: Queen of Angels. Translated by Peter Robert. Heyne SF&F # 4954, 1993, ISBN 3-453-06195-0 .
  • 2 Heads (2 parts in: Interzone, # 37 July 1990  ff.)
  • 3 Moving Mars (1993)
    • German: Heimat Mars. Translated by Ursula Kiausch. Heyne SF&F # 5922, 1999, ISBN 3-453-13309-9 .
  • 4 Slant (1997; also: / )
    • German: Slant. Greg arr. Translated by Bernhard Kempen. Heyne SF&F # 6357, 2001, ISBN 3-453-17096-2 .

Quantico:

  • 1 Quantico (2005)
  • 2 Mariposa (2009)
Darwin
  • 1 Darwin's Radio (1999)
  • 2 Darwin's Children (2003)
    • English: The Darwin Children. Translated by Usch Kiausch. Spectrum academ. V. Elsevier # 1484, 2004, ISBN 3-8274-1484-9 .
Halo

Forerunner Saga / Blood Fathers Saga

  • 1 Cryptum (2011)
    • German: Kryptum. Translated by Tobias Toneguzzo and Andreas Kasprzak. Panini (Panini Halo - Blood Fathers # 1), 2011, ISBN 978-3-8332-2126-2 .
  • 2 Primordium (2012)
    • German: Primordium. Translated by Tobias Toneguzzo and Andreas Kasprzak. Panini (Panini Halo - Blood Fathers # 2), 2012, ISBN 978-3-8332-2524-6 .
  • 3 Silentium (2013)
    • German: Silentium. Translated by Andreas Kasprzak. Panini (Panini Halo - Blood Fathers # 3), 2013, ISBN 978-3-8332-2701-1 .

Short story:

  • Silentium (2014; with Erik Bear)
The Mongoliad / Foreworld Saga (with Mark Teppo, Cooper Moo, Neal Stephenson , Nicole Galland, Erik Bear and Joseph Brassey)
  • 1 The Mongoliad: Book One (2012)
  • 2 The Mongoliad: Book Two (2012;)
  • 3 The Mongoliad: Book Three: Includes Seer, a prequel to The Mongoliad series (2013)
Was dogs
  • 1 War Dogs (2014)
  • 2 Killing Titan (2015)
  • 3 Take Back the Sky (2016)
  • The War Dogs Trilogy (collective edition from 1–3; 2017)

Novels

  • Hegira (1979)
  • Psychlone (1979; also: Lost Souls , 1982)
  • Beyond Heaven's River (1980)
  • Strength of Stones (1981)
    • German: The power of stones. Translated by Martin Gilbert. Heyne SF&F # 5509, 1996, ISBN 3-453-10947-3 .
  • Hardfought (short novel in: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1983 )
  • Corona ( Star Trek: The Original Series , 1984)
  • Blood Music (1985)
    • German: blood music. Translated by Walter Brumm. Heyne SF&F # 4480, 1988, ISBN 3-453-01014-0 .
  • Foundation and Chaos (continuation of the Foundation cycle , part 2 of the second Foundation trilogy, 1998)
    • German: Foundation and Chaos. Translated by Irene Holicki. Heyne SF&F # 8302, 2000, ISBN 3-453-17932-3 . Also called: The Foundation's Case. Translated by Irene Holicki. Heyne (The Second Foundation Trilogy # 2), 2006, ISBN 3-453-52157-9 .
  • Sleepside Story (1988, short novel)
    • German: The whore. In: Greg Bear: Tangents. 1997.
  • Sisters (1989, short novel in: Greg Bear: Tangents )
    • German: sisters. In: Greg Bear: Tangents. 1997.
  • Heads (1990)
    • German: heads. Translated by Irene Bonhorst. Heyne SF&F # 5347, 1995, ISBN 3-453-08591-4 .
  • Slant (1997)
  • Dinosaur Summer (1998)
  • Rogue Planet ( Star Wars : Episode I , 2000)
    • English: Planet of the Traitors. Translated by Ralf Schmitz. Blanvalet (Goldmann # 35494), 2001, ISBN 3-442-35494-3 .
  • Vitals (2002)
    • German: Hunter. Translated by Helmut Gerstberger. Heyne General Series # 13759, 2003, ISBN 3-453-86948-6 .
  • Dead Lines (2004)
  • City at the End of Time (2008)
    • German: The city at the end of time. Translated by Usch Kiausch. Heyne SF & F # 52341, 2009, ISBN 978-3-453-52341-8 .
  • Hull Zero Three (2010)
  • The Anvil of the Stars
    • English: The anvil of the stars. Translated by Winfried Petri. E-books by the Random House GmbH publishing group, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-641-13590-4 (e-book).
  • The City at the End of Time
    • German: The city at the end of time. Translated by Usch Kiausch. E-books by the Random House GmbH publishing group, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-641-07715-0 (e-book).

Collections

  • The Wind from a Burning Woman (1983; also: The Venging , 1992)
  • Early Harvest (1988)
  • Tangents (1989)
    • German: Tangenten. Translated by Andreas Irle. Heyne SF&F # 5663, 1997, ISBN 3-453-11951-7 .
  • Bear's Fantasies (1992)
  • The Collected Stories of Greg Bear (2002)
  • W3: Women in Deep Time (2003; also: Women In Deep Time , 2008)
  • Sleepside: The Collected Fantasies of Greg Bear (2004; also: Sleepside Stories , 2011)
  • Journeys Through Time & Space: 5 Classic Novels of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2017, collective edition)
The Complete Short Fiction of Greg Bear
  • 1 Just Over the Horizon (2016)
  • 2 Far Thoughts and Pale Gods (2016)
  • 3 Beyond the Farthest Suns (2016)

Short stories

1967
  • Destroyers (1967, in: Famous Science Fiction, Winter 1967/1968 )
1973
  • Webster (1973)
    • German: Webster. In: Greg Bear: Tangents. 1997.
1975
  • The Venging (in: Galaxy, June 1975 ; revised version 1992 in: Greg Bear: The Venging )
  • Perihesperon (1975, in: Roger Elwood (Ed.): Tomorrow: New Worlds of Science Fiction ; revised version 1992 in: Greg Bear: The Venging )
1976
  • A Martian Ricorso (in: Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, February 1976 )
    • German: Be careful! In: Hans Joachim Alpers (Ed.): Beasts for Norn. Droemer Knaur (Knaur Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5722), 1980, ISBN 3-426-05722-0 . Also as: A Martian Ricorso. In: Greg Bear: Tangents. 1997.
1977
  • Sun-Planet (in: Galaxy, April 1977 )
1978
  • Mandala (1978, in: Robert Silverberg (Ed.): New Dimensions: Science Fiction: Number 8 )
  • Scattershot (1978, in: Terry Carr (Ed.): Universe 8 )
1979
  • The White Horse Child (1979, in: Terry Carr (Ed.): Universe 9 )
1980
1981
  • Eucharist (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1981 )
  • Strength of Stones, Flesh of Brass (in: Rigel Science Fiction, # 1 Summer 1981 )
1982
  • Petra (in: Omni, February 1982 )
  • Schrödinger's Plague (in: Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, March 29, 1982 )
    • German: Schrödinger's epidemic. In: Greg Bear: Tangents. 1997.
1983
  • Blood Music (in: Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, June 1983 )
  • Hardfought (1983)
1985
  • Through Road No Whither (1985, in: Jim Baen and Jerry Pournelle (Eds.): Far Frontiers ; also: Through Road, No Whither , 1989)
    • German: The road to nowhere. In: Greg Bear: Tangents. 1997.
  • Dead Run (in: Omni, April 1985 )
    • German: Totenfuhre. In: Greg Bear: Tangents. 1997.
  • Through Road No Whither (1985)
    • German: The road to nowhere. In: Greg Bear: Tangents. 1997.
1986
  • Tangents (in: Omni, January 1986 )
    • German: Tangenten. In: Hans Joachim Alpers (Ed.): Kopernikus 15. Moewig Science Fiction # 3790, 1988, ISBN 3-8118-3790-7 .
1987
  • The Visitation (in: Omni, June 1987 ; also: Visitation , 1989)
  • The Machineries of Joy (1987)
    • German: The entertainment machinery. In: Greg Bear: Tangents. 1997.
1988
  • Sleepside Story (1988)
    • German: The whore. In: Greg Bear: Tangents. 1997.
1989
  • Sisters (1989)
    • German: sisters. In: Greg Bear: Tangents. 1997.
1991
  • The Man Who Would Be Kzin ( Tales of Known Space - Man-Kzin Wars , 1991, in: Larry Niven (Ed.): Man-Kzin Wars IV ; with SM Stirling )
    • English: The man who wanted to be Kzin. In: The Survivor. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction # 24265, 1999, ISBN 3-404-24265-3 .
1992
  • Jet vs. Sam the Sailor Sheep (1992, in: Yarf! The Journal of Applied Anthropomorphics # 20 ; with Roz Gibson)
  • A Plague of Conscience (1992, in: Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg (Eds.): Murasaki ; also: Plague of Conscience , 2002)
1995
1996
  • The Fall of the House of Escher (1996, in: David Copperfield and Janet Berliner (Eds.): David Copperfield's Beyond Imagination ; also: Fall of the House of Escher , 2013)
2000
  • Deep Ice and DNA Languages (in: Nature, January 13, 2000 )
2002
  • MDIO Ecosystems Increase Knowledge of DNA Languages ​​(2215 CE) (2002, in: Greg Bear: The Collected Stories of Greg Bear )
2005
  • RAM Shift Phase 2 (in: Nature, December 15, 2005 )
2010
  • Warm Sea (2010, in: Elizabeth Anne Hull (Ed.): Gateways )
2014
  • Genius (2014, in: Jason V. Brock (Ed.): A Darke Phantastique: Encounters with the Uncanny and Other Magical Things )
2015
  • Object 00922UU (2015, in: ST Joshi (Ed.): The Madness of Cthulhu: Volume Two ; with Erik Bear)
  • The Machine Starts (2015, in: Jennifer Henshaw and Allison Linn (Eds.): Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft )
2016
  • Silicon Times E-Book Review (2016, in: Greg Bear: Just Over the Horizon )

Anthologies

  • New Legends (1995; with Martin H. Greenberg )
  • Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson's Worlds (2014; also: Multiverse: Exploring the Worlds of Poul Anderson , 2016; with Gardner Dozois)
  • Nebula Awards Showcase 2015

literature

Web links

Commons : Greg Bear  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): The Science Fiction Year 1989. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-453-03139-3 , p. 524.
  2. ↑ See Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Das Science Fiction Jahr 1991. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-453-04471-1 , p. 649 f.
personal data
SURNAME Bear, Greg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bear, Gregory Dale (full name); Bear, Greg D. (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th August 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH San Diego , California , USA