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About the Author (Photo (c) Jerry Bauer)

Bibliography

Paperback - Voyager (2003)

First British Edition Harpercollins (2002)

Vitals
From the New York Times-bestselling author Greg Bear comes a vivid and terrifying scientific thriller.
Research scientist Dr Hal Cousins is looking for a cure for old age. Having fallen from grace in the academic world, he’s funded by ‘Angels’, rich businessmen keen to live a thousand years. He tells them he almost has the answer in his gasp, which he believes is true. Radical gene therapy. He’s taken it beyond the theoretical stage, and he’s survived.
Hal’s luck runs out a mile and a half below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. He’s in a rich man’s private sub collecting primitive creatures that may contain the last piece of the puzzle. But the pilot of the sub goes berserk and ties hard to kill Hal before killing himself. The specimens are trashed. Then five other scientists in related fields die violently in the space of a week.
Paranoid, shaken, Hal discovers a trail of death stretching back over, decades, from indoctrination camps in Stalin’s Russia to the blank-walled building known as ‘Anthrax Central’ in present-day Manhattan. Now a new epidemic of murder by superbly trained killers has been triggered by what he nearly discovered.
Hal has learned that there are some among us who are far older than they seem. A vast conspiracy has concealed them and their death-defying secret. It’s a secret they’ll kill to keep...
‘Whatever Bear touches turns epic. . . Rarely have I felt so much the presence of great events’ The Times
‘Vitals is the ultimate conspiracy theory. A collusion between our governments, the dark secrets of our hearts, and a force older than time’ Stephen Baxter
‘Reading vitals, Greg Bear’s dark, suspenseful, paranoid thriller of high-tech bioterrorism, would be terrifying even without real-world anthrax attacks. But the news stories of late 2001 add layers of resonance to the book’ Amazon

First British Edition Harpercollins (1999)

Paperback - Harpercollins (2000)

Darwin's Radio
World War III will be the war against our extinction
Christopher Dicken, 'virus hunter' of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, joins an emergency Taskforce on the order of the President. Around the world, what were thought to be ancient junk genes in human DNA have been stimulated to assemble encoded proteins and RNA into an infectious virus. It already has an in-house name at the Centers For Disease Control: Herod's influenza, because it attacks only women - and it kills unborn children. It has also been assigned a technical name: SHERVA-DL3. That is, Scattered Human Endogenous retroVirus Activation. Drop the R in retro for dramatic effect. That makes a SHEVA, an apt name for a killer.
Natural Selection
Dicken needs Kaye Lang on his team. She's the scientist who predicted the emergence of SHEVA in a paper that brought her glory - but no money. Her brilliant but unstable husband Saul is not able to translate his genius into success, either. Kaye knows more about SHEVA than anyone...
Divergence of Character
...Except for one other scientist, a paleontologist, who has intuited even more. Mitch Rafelson has no credibility whatsoever. The sin of overwhelming curiosity has left him an unemployed outcast, pilloried in headlines: Scientist/Thief, Sole Survivor of Body-Snatching Alpine Expedition. But he learned something on the mountain when he found the mummified baby, something nobody else knows, not even Kaye Lang.
Our place on the ladder of evolution is not where we thought
All other war; in history have been in some way between the forces of good and evil. Not this war. Like a signal on Darwin's Radio SHEVA is broadcasting an extraordinary truth about the origin of species. SHEVA confirms Darwin's view of 'blundering, low and horribly cruel works of nature'. There are those who will want to control human destiny, and others who will fight them.
The Descent of Man is at hand
'Whatever Greg Bear touches turns epic… Rarely have I felt so much the presence of great events' The Times
'Darwin's Radio is a tense technothriller in the Michael Crichton vein ... There are riots, flights to the hills, death cults, martial law, and superstitious fear ... ' New Scientist
'A stunning read' Roz Kaveney, Amazon

British Pbk Original - Gollancz Millenium (1999)

Strength of Stones
They were built to hold the hopes of mankind. They exposed only his folly…
In the deserts of God-Does-Battle the Cities stand alone, as beleaguered as the aspirations of mankind. Those still alive are silent - like stars in a dying universe, they await dust and decay. Yet within the living plasm of their fragmented structures an ancient programme still works, implanted by the human creators cast out a thousand years ago. Before long, it is clear, some of the Cities will be fighting extinction. And many of them will do battle in a quite unexpected way ...
‘An excellent novel. It knocked me out!’ Harlan Ellison
‘He explores the very edge of tomorrow and makes you feel what might happen the day after’ David Brin
'A writer of compelling talent' New Statesman

Paperback - Vista (1998)

The Forge of God
Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, suddenly disappears. Shortly after, a mysterious mound, evidently a disguised spaceship, is found in the Californian desert. Beside it lies a dying alien creature, which says, very clearly and unmistakably,'m sorry, but there is bad news.'
Meanwhile, in Australia, another spaceship has appeared, this time carrying friendly robots who promise a new era of peace and plenty.
Alan Gordon, recently science adviser to the President, cannot escape the feeling that something very terrible indeed is about to happen...
'Tremendous... Mr Bear's pace has an awesome momentum; rarely have I felt so much in the presence of great events' The Times
'A thoroughly shocking book - exhilarating' New Scientist
'Bear's vision ... makes The Forge of God one of the most striking novels in modern science fiction' Locus
'Epic SF at its mind-extending best' Sunday Times

Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (2000)

Queen of Angels
In a world of wonders, wealth and 'perfect' mental health, a famous poet commits gruesome murder.
WHY?
That crime and that question lead a policewoman to a journey of torture and forgotten gods; a writer to the bohemian shadows of a vast city; and a scientist directly into the mind - into the nightmare soul - of the psychopath himself.
‘Succeeds on virtually every level’ New York Times
‘One is ultimately awed ... it may be we most ambitious book I've ever read’ Washington Post Book World
‘As complex, dangerous, and challenging as any journey to the farthest reaches of space and time" Locus

About The Author
Greg Bear was born in San Diego, California. His father was in the US Navy, and by the time he was twelve years old, Greg had lived in Japan, the Philippines, Alaska - where at the age of ten he completed his first short story - and various other parts of the US. He published his first science fiction story aged sixteen. His novels and stories have won prizes and been translated around the world.
Greg Bear has been attributed to presaging the interest in Nanotech with his short story Blood Music, and his novella, Heads, has been accused of predicting both quantum computers and the Bose-Einstein Condensate.
Darwin's Radio won the 2001 Nebula Award.

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Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

Vitals (Harpercollins, 2002) Voyager Pbk Sep 03

Darwin's Radio (Harpercollins, 1999) Harpercollins Pbk May 00

Strength of Stones (Gollancz Millenium Pbk, 1999)

The Forge of God (Vista, 1998) Gollancz 1987 Vista Pbk 1998

Queen of Angels ( 1990) Gollancz Millenium Pbk Jun 00

Tangents ( 1989) Gollancz Millenium Pbk Jun 00

Eternity ( 1988) Gollancz Millenium Pbk Nov 99

Eon ( 1985) Gollancz Millenium Pbk Apr 02

Blood Music ( 1985) Gollancz Pbk Aug 07

Beyond Heaven's River ( 1980) Gollancz Millenium Pbk Jun 00

Hegira ( 1979) Gollancz Millenium Pbk Nov 99