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
Book Preview Two hundred years in the future, the Moon is emerging from an age of innocence. Once pioneers, the easiest motto for these Lunar families is Cut the politics. They think they are safe from the sophistication and corruption of political intrigue. William Pierce is searching for absolute zero. No scientist has yet succeeded, … Read more
Book Preview http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html Two hundred years in the future, the Moon is emerging from an age of innocence. Once pioneers, the easiest motto for these Lunar families is Cut the politics. They think they are safe from the sophistication and corruption of political intrigue. William Pierce is searching for absolute zero. No scientist has yet … Read more
Book Preview They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities; and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. KJV, Deuteronomy, 32:21, cf. Romans 10:19 …make the … Read more
Book Preview ereads – Science Fiction Copyright (C)1979 by Greg Bear NOTICE: This work is copyrighted. It is licensed only for use by the purchaser. Making copies of this work or distributing it to any unauthorized person by any means, including without limit email, floppy disk, file transfer, paper print out, or any other method … Read more
Book Preview ******************************************************** Original copyright year: Comments: Please correct the errors you find in this e-text, update the version number and redistribute ******************************************************** “God is dead, God is dead . . . . Perdition! When God dies, you’ll know it.” -Confessions of St. Argentine As near as I can discover, Mortdieu occurred seventy-seven years ago. … Read more
Book Preview The swell was gently lifting and lowering the boat. My breathing grew slower, falling into step with the creaking of the hull, until I could no longer tell the difference between the faint rhythmic motion of the cabin and the sensation of filling and emptying my ABC Amber LIT Converter http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html ABC Amber … Read more