Book Preview VIKING Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St. … Read more
Book Preview About Arcadian Genesis An aeon ago it crashed into the frozen earth. Millennia later it was removed from the icy soil, still functioning. They opened it … they shouldn’t have.Alex Hunter – in the mission that turned him from a normal man into the weapon known as the Arcadian – and … Read more
Book Preview Alex Hunter, code named Arcadian, wakes up with no knowledge of who he is, in the care of a woman he doesn’t recognise, in a country not his own. But there is a calling deep within him, to return home to Black Mountain. Formed a billion years ago, the Appalachian’s Black Mountain hosts … Read more
Book Preview * * * * This Green Hell [Alex Hunter 03] By Greig Beck Scanned & Proofed By MadMaxAU * * * * PROLOGUE I t had travelled for a billion years. Exploded from its cold, black world by a massive meteor strike … Read more
Book Preview Greig Beck grew up across the road from Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. His early days were spent surfing, sunbaking and reading science fiction on the sand. Later when real life and adulthood intruded he went on to study computer science, and later received an MBA. Greig is the director of a software … Read more
Book Preview In 1996, Russian and British scientists discovered a warm-water lake two and half miles beneath the Antarctic ice. “Lake Vostok” as it has been named, is the size of Lake Ontario and biologists suspect that it may contain life forms that have been unseen on the surface for millions of years. Hundreds of … Read more
Book Preview No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, scanning or any information storage retrieval system, without explicit permission in writing from the Author. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of … Read more
Book Preview [VERSION 2.1 (Feb 20 04). If you find and correct errors in the text, please update the version number by 0.1 and redistribute.] Our bodies are made of cells. Mitochondria are the parts of our cells that generate the energy-rich molecules we use every instant of our lives. Billions of years ago, mitochondria … Read more
Book Preview The topics of Greg Bear’s science fiction have ranged from nanotechnology run amok in Blood Music, to the translation of souls into awesome energy fields in the SF-horror hybrid Psycholone, and future evolution in Darwin’s Radio. He is the author of the Songs of Earth and Power heroic diptych, comprised of The Infinity … Read more
Book Preview A Myth from Thistledown “Probabilities fluctuated wildly, but always passed through zero, and gate openers, their equipment, and all associated personnel within a few hundred meters of the gate, were swallowed by a null that can only be described in terms of mathematics. It became difficult to remember that they had ever existed; … Read more
Book Preview THE MACHINERIES OF JOY, REDUX © 1995 by Greg Bear, originally published in The SFFWA Handbook 1995 Edition. Some years ago, in the last edition of The SFWA Handbook, I published a warning about electronic rights. Publishers were trying to get rights to this ill-defined market, without paying additional money or even defining … Read more
Book Preview at is so fascinating about science fiction? Why o so many feel an attraction to its subjects, and a persistent few continue to think of it as (on the whole) worthless garbage? The answer, I think, lies in a basic American dichotomy. America has always been a land set firmly not in the … Read more
Book Preview STRIKES AND SPARES This entire article © 1996 by Greg Bear. “You’re a science fiction writer, huh? What have you predicted?” I’ve been asked this many times-and my usual reply is, “I’m not a prophet and I don’t predict…” But in a way, the question is legitimate. Science fiction is often charged with … Read more
Book Preview Or is my flesh of brass? 13 Is it that I have no help in me, And that sound wisdom is driven _JOB 6, the Masoretic Text_ _The final decade of Earth’s twentieth century was cataclysmic. Moslem states fought horrible wars in 1995, 1996, and 1998, devastating much of Africa and the Middle … Read more
Book Preview The pale, translucent forms bent over Michael Perrin once again. Had he been awake, he would have recognized three of them, but he was in a deep and dreamless sleep. Sleep was a habit he had reacquired since his return. It took him away, however briefly, from thoughts of what had happened in … Read more
Book Preview The Infinity Concerto Songs of Earth and Power Vol. 1 Reviewer: This is the 1st book of a 2 book series. The last is The Serpent Mage. Both books have also been combined as another title, “Songs of Earth & Power.” My detailed rating would be 4.1 for this book. The essential story … Read more
Book Preview Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bear, Greg [Slant] / Greg Bear. -lst ed. The title consists solely of the slant sign. “A Torn Doherty Associates book.” ISBN 0-3 I 2-85517-6 (hardcover: acid-free paper) I. Title. First Edition: July 1997 Printed in the United States of America Budget: Select, Restricted > Knowledge, Sex, Datafiow … Read more
Book Preview http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html Radio Commentary by Greg Bear (aired July, 1994, KUOW, National Public Radio in Seattle.) For copies of tape and permission to broadcast, contact Wayne Roth or Brian Hyams, KUOW, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, Ph: 206-543-2710 I was fortunate at a recent American Booksellers convention to come face to face with … Read more