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
Mostly she just loved sitting down and writing.
Mostly she just loved sitting down and writing. For being a black female growing up in Los Angeles in the '60s, she was attracted to science fiction for the same reasons I was: It liberated her. She had a far-ranging imagination, and she was a treasure in our community.
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.
Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.
All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile,
To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat.
Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process.
All things will be ambiguous, for this is the curse of wisdom.
To translate kinesics or paralinguistic messages into words is likely to introduce gross falsification due not merely to the human propensity for trying to falsify statements about "feelings" and relationship and to the distortions which arise whenever the products of one system of coding are dissected onto the premises of another, but especially to the fact that all such translation must give to the more or less unconscious and involuntary message the appearance of conscious intent.
There is nothing finer in the world than the telling of tales. Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitive-and getting away with it-is far nobler. Lance boils if you wish, but pricking pretensions is often cleaner and always more fun.
You deserve whoever governs you ... Everyone is responsible for the actions of their leaders.
Having one's eyes opened doesn't make one grateful.
But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations—particularly when the something you’re fighting holds most of the cards, the deck is stacked against you, and the whole gambling hall is on fire and filled with thugs.
Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.