Books by Greg Bear

A select group of eighty-two human survivors rides through space in the Ship of the Law, a ship constructed from the fragments of Earth's corpse, determined to punish those responsible for their planet's destruction, in the sequel to The Forge of God. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Captured by aliens hundreds of years ago, Yoshio Kawashita is left stranded on a prison planet when they suddenly leave without warning.

In the Hugo Award-winning Cascade Point, faster-than-light travel leads to adventure and danger, and in the Nebula Award-winning Hardfought, alien warfare lights up the skies. Original.

Jinny, Jack, and Daniel are fate-shifters. They possess the ability to experience the dreams and thoughts of individuals from the future. These abilities--the dreams of a distant time and a city of the future that they share with Jebrassy and Tiadba--make them wanted in their own time and important to the fate of the future. Respected author Greg Bear presents a powerful vision of tomorrow--and of today--in CITY AT THE END OF TIME.

Unable to recall their pasts, three young people living in Seattle share a disturbing vision of a far-future, decaying cityscape and are each drawn into a desperate mission to preserve their own universe and pass on key knowledge to a new universe that is being born. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Reprint.

Spanning his entire career and featuring introductions by the author, a definitive collection of science fiction short stories by the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Forge of God introduces readers to the author's unique style of storytelling in such award-winning works as "Blood Music," "Tangents," "Hardfought," and "Petra." Reprint.

One of the earliest books in the "Star Trek" series (number 15), this novel follows the adventures of the "Enterprise" and its crew as they try to avert a universe-wide catastrophe with the "aid" of a new shipboard computer that has the authority to countermand Kirk's orders.

Greg Bear’s Nebula Award–winning novel, Darwin’s Radio, painted a chilling portrait of humankind on the threshold of a radical leap in evolution—one that would alter our species forever. Now Bear continues his provocative tale of the human race confronted by an uncertain future, where “survival of the fittest” takes on astonishing and controversial new dimensions.

DARWIN’S CHILDREN

Eleven years have passed since SHEVA, an ancient retrovirus, was discovered in human DNA—a retrovirus that caused mutations in the human genome and heralded the arrival of a new wave of genetically enhanced humans. Now these changed children have reached adolescence . . . and face a world that is outraged about their very existence. For these special youths, possessed of remarkable, advanced traits that mark a major turning point in human development, are also ticking time bombs harboring hosts of viruses that could exterminate the “old” human race.

Fear and hatred of the virus children have made them a persecuted underclass, quarantined by the government in special “schools,” targeted by federally sanctioned bounty hunters, and demonized by hysterical segments of the population. But pockets of resistance have sprung up among those opposed to treating the children like dangerous diseases—and who fear the worst if the government’s draconian measures are carried to their extreme.

Scientists Kaye Lang and Mitch Rafelson are part of this small but determined minority. Once at the forefront of the discovery and study of the SHEVA outbreak, they now live as virtual exiles in the Virginia suburbs with their daughter, Stella—a bright, inquisitive virus child who is quickly maturing, straining to break free of the protective world her parents have built around her, and eager to seek out others of her kind.

But for all their precautions, Kaye, Mitch, and Stella have not slipped below the government’s radar. The agencies fanatically devoted to segregating and controlling the new-breed children monitor their every move—watching and waiting for the opportunity to strike the next blow in their escalating war to preserve “humankind” at any cost.


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A virus hunter at the Epidemic Intelligence Service has discovered that a long-dormant virus encoded in human DNA is about to re-awaken, with terrifying consequences for any woman about to have a child. Reprint.

When a new information channel that enables the transmission of unprecedented volumes of data is developed, the bandwidth's users begin having strange experiences that lead to the realization that it might be a pathway to the spirit realm where people go when they die. By the author of Darwin's Children. Reprint.

It's 1947. In an "alternate history", dinosaurs never went extinct; their living descendants still survive on a plateau in South America. In the most exciting adventure of his life, Peter Belzoni has accompanied his journalist father to see the world's last dinosaur circus return its few surviving attractions to their natural habitat. But after a sudden attack by a vicious predator, the Belzonis find themselves stranded with several others in dinosaur territory and realize quickly that they must devise some means of escape--or risk becoming South America's newest endangered species.

A bizarre discovery inside a hollow asteroid-spaceship triggers a worldwide war that results in the utter destruction of all human life, except for those inside the spaceship. Reissue.

The delicate balance of power is undermined as opposing groups clash over control of the Corridor, an access point to alternative worlds in the past, present, and future. Reprint.

Earth is threatened by the invasion of an interstellar research probe gone mad, in an imaginative study of the complex interactions, and their ramifications, between human passions and the inflexible equations of science.

Isaac Asimov's renowned Foundation Trilogy pioneered many of the familiar themes of modern science fiction and shaped many of its best writers. With the permission and blessing of the Asimov estate, the epic saga left unfinished by the Grand Master himself now continues with this second masterful volume. With Hari Seldon on trial for treason, the Galactic Empire's long-anticipated migration to Star's End is about to begin. But the mission's brilliant robot leader, R. Daneel Olivaw, has discovered a potential enemy far deadlier--and closer--than he ever imagined. One of his own kind. A freak accident erases the basic commandments in humaniform robot Lodovik Trema's positronic brain. Now Lodovic's service to humankind is no longer bound by destiny, but by will. To ensure his loyalty, Daneel has Lodovic secretly reprogrammed. But can he be trusted? Now, other robots are beginning to question their mission--and Daneel's strategy. And stirrings of rebellion, too, are infecting their human counterparts. Among them is a young woman with awesome psychic abilities, a reluctant leader with the power to join man and robot in a quest for common freedom.or mutual destruction.The Foundation Saga Continues Read Gregory Benford's Foundation's Fear, the first novel in this bold new series and Secret Foundation, the concluding volume from David Brin.

Mickey awaits imminent chaos when his brother-in-law uses the moon's facilities in his quest for Absolute Zero and his sister Rho tries to read the memories of 410 cryogenically frozen heads.

Bar-Woten, an inhabitant of the melting plot planet of Hegira, searches for information about his homeland and its history, attempting to decipher the truth that exists in the writings on the massive Obelisks, which hold the key to the origins of each tribe on the planet. Reprint.

The author returns to the universe of his best-selling novel, Eon, where a fantastic world is discovered whose evolution has been similar enough to Earth's to reveal some eerie lessons about human destiny.

When the Talos Corporation threatens to subvert the American government with the mind-altering Mariposa program, it is up to FBI agents William Griffin, Rebecca Rose and Nathan Trace to stop the military-contracting company and its ruthless CEO before it'

A brilliant physicist and the daughter of one of Mars' oldest colonizing families--both involved in the student uprising of 2171--see the revolution take a dramatic, unexpected turn.

After twenty years of travel, the first ships bearing humans arrive in the Murasaki system, where they encounter the inhabitants of Murasaki's two mysterious worlds and where they unravel the mysteries of an alien ecosystem.

A collection of original hard science fiction works includes the writings of such authors as Ursula K. Le Guin, Gregory Benford, Poul Anderson, Robert Silverberg, George Alec Effinger, Mary Rosenblum, and Greg Egan.

Larry Fowler, a scientist, is convinced strange forces are at work when his best friend, Henry, and Henry's father Jordan, are found dead under mysterious circumstances.

In a society enjoying peace, prosperity and technologically engineered mental health, Emanuel Goldsmith, a famous poet, commits gruesome murder. Three people investigate the crime--one a therapist who will enter Goldsmith's mind to search for answers. A mesmerizing work set in a tomorrow that is less than a century away.

Charged with educating young Anakin Skywalker in the ways of the Jedi, Obi-Wan Kenobi takes the boy to Zonama Sekot--where the fastest ships in the galaxy are built--and find danger aplenty in this distant port of call. Reprint.

Thirteen of the greatest science fiction stories--including "Four one," "The Monsters," "Colony," and "Day million"--are accompanied by in-depth critical analyses and by an autobiographical essay entitled "The Making of a Science Fiction Writer." Originally published as Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder. Reissue.

This is a fabulous collection of short stories by major science Fiction and Fantasy writers -- many of them Nebula and Hugo Award winners. Included is the Sentinel by legendary Arthur C. Clarke, which is the story that evolved into 2001: A Space Odyssey. This collection features more than a dozen complete stories including Permafrost by Roger Zelazny, The Poplar Street Study by Karen Jay Fowler, Our Lady of the Sauropods by Robert Silverberg, Fat Farm by Orson Scott Card along with others by Ben Bova, Greg Bear, Susan Schwartz, Jane Yolin, Connie Willis and Dan Simmons.

Grateful to return from the land of the Sidhe to his Los Angeles home, Michael Perrin is shocked to learn magical beings have followed him there.

In the sixth decade of the 21st century, Earth has been transformed. Nanotechnology has been perfected, giving humans the ability to change their environment and themselves down to the cellular level. And the study of the mind has brought a revolution in human psychotherapy and artificial intelligence. It's a sane and perfect world--almost.

An exciting compilation of fantasy work from an award-winning science fiction and fantasy author features the stories "Webster," "The White Horse Child." "Sleepside Story," "Dead Run, " "Through Road No Whither," "Richie by the Sea," "The Visitation," " Petra," and many more. Reprint.

Slipping into the Realm of the Sidhe, young Michael Perrin faces years of captivity and deadly struggles for the future of the Realm and of Earth that culminate in a terrible confrontation on the streets of Los Angeles.

Charged with educating young Anakin Skywalker in the ways of the Jedi, Obi-Wan Kenobi takes the boy to Zonama Sekot--where the fastest ships in the galaxy are built--and finds danger aplenty in this distant port of call. Simultaneous.

A definitive overview of the work of an award-winning author presents a selection of stories that includes the Hugo and Nebula-winning "Tangent" and "Blood Music," "Sisters," "Sleepside Story," and "Dead Run"

A classic novel of the future follows the Time Traveller as he hurtles one million years into the future and encounters a world populated by two distinct races, the childlike Eloi and the disgusting Morlocks who prey on the Eloi. Reprint.

When his life is threatened, scientist Hal Cousins suddenly finds himself caught in a deadly game of shocking revelations, murder, and betrayal due to his discovery of the key to immortality, which puts everyone on Earth at the mercy of one man's diabolical master plan. Reprint.

Three short works including "Sisters," "Scattershot," and the Nebula Award-winning "Hardfought" introduce readers to the inhabitants of multiple universes and feature a theme of the female psyche, multiplied and divided. Original.

Bear presents his visions of the universe and future human cultures in Wind From a Burning Woman, The White Horse Child, Petra, Scattershot, Mandala, and Hardfought.