Greg Bear
Greg Bear
Gregory Dale "Greg" Bearis an American writer best known for science fiction. His work has covered themes of galactic conflict, artificial universes, consciousness and cultural practices, and accelerated evolution. His most recent work is the Forerunner Trilogy, written in the Halo universe. Greg Bear has written 44 books in total. Greg Bear was also one of the five co-founders of the San Diego Comic-Con...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 August 1951
CountryUnited States of America
It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West!
All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile,
Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.
For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.
It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff.
Working in Isaac's universe was more of a treat than a challenge.
There is no war so important that to win it, we must destroy our minds.
Sometimes the problem outshines the pain.