Greg Bear

"Greg Bear sold his first short story in 1966 -- at the age of fifteen. He hit his stride in the late Seventies and early Eighties, when a flurry of short stories and novels established him as a writer to watch.

"Bear's work is strongly rooted in the best of SF's intellectual tradition. A prolific yet disciplined writer, he prizes speculative rigor and respect for scientific fact. This attitude linked him with traditional hard SF -- despite much well-praised work in fantasy.

"As his career developed, Bear's great imaginative gifts came strongly to the fore, given even greater impact by the disciplined craftsmanship he learned early on. The combination has produced a genuinely radical hard SF with extreme visionary power, demonstrated in such widely lauded novels as Blood Music and Eon ." --Bruce Sterling (in Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology , 1986).

"His novella Heads was published to universal praise, and repeatedly hailed as 'The finest short fiction of the year'. Greg Bear is the winner of two Hugo Awards, three Nebula Awards and the Prix Apollo. He is today's leading hard SF author. A full-time writer, he lives in Washington State with his family." [publisher's bumpf, New Legends , UK hbk, 1995]

Winner of the 1983 Nebula Award for the novella Hardfought .
Winner of the 1983 Nebula Award and the 1984 Hugo Award for the novelette "Blood Music".
Winner of the 1986 Nebula Award and the 1987 Hugo Award for the short story "Tangents".
Winner of the 1994 Nebula Award for the novel Moving Mars .

Married to: Astrid Anderson.

Daughter: Alexandra.

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