Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Because time isn’t always kind: economic reviews in a world full of waste! At the end to Greg Bear’s THE FORGE OF GOD, Earth was destroyed and humanity had to flee. The surviving adults, helped by a consortium of aliens that had also faced the destroyers, sent their children on a revenge mission to hunt and [...]
SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
SF author Greg Bear told SCI FI Wire that his latest novel, City at the End of Time, is his homage to all the great far-future works of SF.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Greg Bear, best-selling science fiction writer from Seattle, returns with the sort of epic of the future that has earned him fans around the globe. He discusses "City at the End of Time" Tuesday in Seattle.
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Eileen sez, "This cool home-grown slide show that Greg Bear made for his new novel, CITY AT THE END OF TIME (which is hitting the shelves today, from Del Rey/Orion) is an example of what a motivated writer can do with a camera, a few Photoshop chops, and generous splash of suspenseful pacing. It looks like the trailer for a very classy science-fiction movie. The book is set in Seattle, where Greg lives,...
andra (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Product Description “Unfamiliar and exciting territory—a magnificent yarn!” Greg Bear, New York Times best-selling author of Darwin’s Radio, Eon, and Blood Music An accident at a German nuclear plant and a biological warfare attack on the British Embassy in Washington, DC, have put the United States government on full alert. The attack, together with an illegal arms deal between a trusted NATO ally...
TexasBestGrok (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Greg Bear: Quantico (Vanguard Press; 2007; ISBN 978-1-59315-455-5; cover by multiple persons). Vernor Vinge: Rainbows End (Tor Books; 2006; ISBN 0-312-85684-9; cover by Stephan Martiniere)....
Noscope (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Eon is the story of an asteroid that enters earth orbit some time in the future. Inside the asteroid are seven tube-shaped chambers in succession. The chambers have outwards gravity, soil and air. The seventh chamber goes on forever. Our earth explorers encounter wonderful things in the various chambers, especially chamber 7. Sometimes what they [...]
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
I enjoy science-fiction elements in my thrillers, especially as they’re applied by Greg Bear, Michael Marshall (Smith), and Richard Morgan. So I was interested to read this alarming report at the PC World Web site about the threats we might face in the future when science fiction meets science fact: The writers envisioned a near future where quantum computing, and its foundations in parallel
Overcoming Bias (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Yesterday I mentioned liking Greg Bear's Judgement Engine, in Far Futures. George Zebrowski has a similar story in the new Year Million. Both stories describe extremely strange creatures and settings made familiar via disagreement. Zebrowski: There was a gathering. ......
Scooter The Wonder Dog of DOOM (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
"Now let me get this straight. We've traveled about two hundred and twenty kilometers into the Stone, which is about two hundred and ninety kilometers long. So this chamber could be, maybe, fifty kilometers across." Her hands were trembling. "But it isn't." --Greg Bear --- And no g-forces! Space is kinked, but time is straight. How do you *do* that? There's no need to appeal to extrinsic bending. Intrinsic...
The Entropy Pump (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008
by Greg Bear This is Bear’s most dense, most complex and most impressive book. What it’s not is accessible. There are layer upon layer of themes and plot elements, integrated into a vision of the future that tries not to extrapolate just one but as many concepts as possible, making it at times an overwhelming read. [...]
PurpleSlog (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
It is a near-future thriller about Bioterror and hints around the edges at the future events in the Mideast, terrorism, the US Intelligence Community and hi-tech National Security gadgets. It was just okay. It was really about hi-tech bioterror. Secondary themes were about how the USGOV and the IC isn’t doing enough…and is doing too much. And [...]
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 03/29/2008
Well over a year ago, the CG Society held a contest asking artists to produce several different type of digital art surrounding Greg Bear's Eon novel . The results were quite impressive. Now, CG Society is in the midst of a new contest, covering David Brin's Uplift series of books. Artists are asked to 'depict the relations between humans and aliens'. This is the largest contest to date, with over...
Accelerating Future (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Recently I talked to Stephen Euin Cobb of The Future and You. The 71-minute mp3 is here. Past interviewees have included sci-fi authors Greg Bear and Vernor Vinge, senator John McCain, and our friends Aubrey de Grey and George Dvorsky. If you are a writer or producer for a popular website, TV show, podcast, [...]
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 02/25/2008
Fantasy Book Critic interviews Jonathan Barnes ( The Somnambulist ). The Australian interviews Iain Banks ( Matter ). [via Locus Online ] Strange Horizons interviews Greg Bear ( Quantico ). io9 interviews Amy Thomson ( Storyteller ). Jay Lake podcast-interviews Jeff & Ann Vandermeer . [via SFFaudio ] Meanwhile Adventures in Scifi Publishing podcast-interviews Jeff VanderMeer all by his lonesome. George...
