Book Preview Beyond Heaven’s River Songs of Earth and Power Star Wars: Rogue Planet The Collected Stories of Greg Bear PAUL IS DEAD. Call home. Peter Russell, stocky and graying, stood on the sidewalk and squinted at the text message on his cell phone, barely visible in the afternoon sun on Ventura Boulevard. He lifted … Read more
Book Preview “America’s a cruel country. There’s a whole lot of people would just as soon stomp you like an ant. Listen to talk radio. Plenty of dummies, damned few ventriloquists.” “There’s a wolf snarl behind the picnics and Boy Scout badges.” “They want to kill our kids. Lord help us all.” —Anonymous Postings, ALT.NEWCHILD.FAM … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html The Alps, near the Austrian Border with Italy The flat afternoon sky spread over the black and gray mountains like a stage backdrop, the color of a dog’s pale crazy eye. His ankles aching and back burning from a misplaced loop of nylon rope, Mitch Rafelson … Read more
Book Preview C L O N E W A R S ! First Published by The Seattle Weekly, © 1997 by Greg Bear The nightmare seems to be named Dolly, after Dolly Parton-cloned from a cell removed from the udder of an adult sheep. Next come the monkeys, cloned from monkey embryo cells. Then come … Read more
Book Preview TALK DELIVERED AT THE BODEGA BAY, CALIFORNIA AUGUST 1995 BLUE YONDER COMPUTING IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY I’d like to introduce some terms and concepts I’ve used and modified in my fiction, to lay a foundation for my own desiderata for petaflops computers. Most are familiar, but they may be used in unfamiliar ways. … Read more
Book Preview Vergil Ulam, brilliant, unorthodox, has exceeded every ethical guideline for genetic research to engineer blood cells that think for themselves. When his illegal experiments are discovered, he makes a desperate attempt to save his work – by injecting himself with his own creation. He’s infected. What he carries is contagious. Deadly. Moving from … Read more
Book Preview Beyond Heaven’s River 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 … Read more
Book Preview Radio Commentary by Greg Bear (aired July 20, 1994, KUOW, National Public Radio in Seattle. For copies of tape and permission to broadcast, contact Wayne Roth, KUOW, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, Ph: 206-543-2710 Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry became the first science fiction writer in space. His ashes were carried into … Read more
Book Preview http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html Spreadsheets at the Fifth Decade © 1989 by Greg Bear, originally published in Lotus Magazine I’m eighty and sitting alone in a room. I’ve never been much of a mathematician, preferring to dabble rather than to plunge deep into the discipline. But I’m experiencing a kind of math unknown to even the … Read more
Book Preview a short story by Greg Bear Note: only available until the end of July Martian night. The cold and the dark and the stars are so intense they make music, like a faint tinkle of ice xylophones. Maybe it’s my air tank hose scraping; maybe it’s my imagination. Maybe it’s real. Standing on … Read more
Book Preview The zeppelin Hans Glücker left Calais at 9:15 in the evening on a cold night in March, 1899, bound for New Amsterdam, the jewel of British North America. Don Sebastien de Ulloa, known to the Continent as the great detective, passed his departure on the promenade, watching the city lights recede through blurring … Read more
Book Preview Proofread & re-formatted by nukie. Color: -1- -2- -3- -4- -5- -6- -7- -8- -9- Text Size: 10- 11- 12- 13- 14- 15- 16- 17- 18- 19- 20- 21- 22- 23- 24 It takes a lot of people to write a novel. This one would not have existed without the assistance of my … Read more
Book Preview A Bantam Spectra Book / July 2005 Published by Bantam Dell A Division of Random House, Inc. Copyright © 2005 by Elizabeth Bear Cover illustration copyright © 2005 by Paul Youll Cover design by Jamie S. Warren Youll If you purchased this book without a cover, you should be aware that this book … Read more
Book Preview Proofread & re-formatted by nukie. Color: -1- -2- -3- -4- -5- -6- -7- -8- -9- Text Size: 10- 11- 12- 13- 14- 15- 16- 17- 18- 19- 20- 21- 22- 23- 24 A Bantam Spectra Book / January 2005 Published by Bantam Dell A Division of Random House, Inc. Copyright © 2005 by … Read more
Book Preview A little after three A.M., as a cold whispering rain fell over steep-gabled slate, husbands silently pulled wives close in the clammy darkness. Nursemaids rose from narrow beds to check bundled babes; massive-headed mastiffs whined by banked hearthfires as household cats insinuated between dream-running paws; and in their warm, summer-smelling loose boxes, arch-necked … Read more
Book Preview THE MORNING AFTER HE KILLED EUGENE SHAPIRO, ANDRÉ Deschênes woke early. Before his headset warble ended, he rolled from the bed and landed palms-down on the deck of his bedroom. He slept in loose white trousers; nudity implied vulnerability. The raw breeze through the long windows above his bed roughened his shoulders, scalp, … Read more
Book Preview From Gardner Dozois – The Year’s Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006) Elizabeth Bear shares a birthday with Frodo and Bilbo Baggins and owns a pair of Acme cowboy boots. The needle wore a path of dye and scab round and round Patience’s left ring finger; sweltering heat adhered her to the … Read more
Book Preview Elizabeth Bear was born on the same day as Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, and nearly named after Peregrine Took. She is the only daughter of a poet and a luthier. The author is both a John W. Campbell and Locus Award laureate, and her books to be released in 2007 are New Amsterdam … Read more