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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locals orpersons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright 1983 by Greg Bear
First e-reads publication 1999
Greg Bear’s stories and novels have won him an important place in the science fiction community.
Initially, Bear was an illustrator for SF novels in the 1970’s. He has since gone on to a prolific writing career. His short story, Blood Music, which he later rewrote as a novel, won him both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. His acclaimed work includes DINOSAUR SUMMER, ANVIL OF STARS, ETERNITY
and DARWIN’S RADIO. He is married and lives in Washington State.
I have had a passion for science fiction and fantasy ever since I can remember. Science fiction has been a wonderful mother for my mind, showing me that the world is far bigger and stranger than it seems within my province. And in the past few years—after many more years of apprenticeship—it has become a fine, broad landscape on which to test my imagination.
