<div>&ldquo;Three stories with a common theme: the female psyche, multiplied and divided,&rdquo; says Greg Bear in his introduction to Women in Deep Time. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s probably something Jungian in common with all three. At any rate, throughout my writing career (and for whatever reason) I&rsquo;ve been fascinated by the feminine voice.&rdquo; Featured in this special collection are &ldquo;Sisters,&rdquo; Nebula Award finalist &ldquo;Scattershot,&rdquo; in which the inhabitants of many universes meet in limbo, and the Nebula Award&ndash;winning &ldquo;Hardfought,&rdquo; in which engineered warriors redefine humanity. </div>

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Women in Deep Time

<div>A Japanese WWII soldier finds himself on an alien world in this novel from the bestselling &ldquo;master of the grand-scale SF novel&rdquo; (Booklist). Yoshio Kawashita is a great warrior until aliens whisk him away during World War II. They put him on a desolate planet far from his home, where he is destined to remain forever, leaving him alone in his new hell. Then Anna Nestor appears. This empress does not see planets as homes for their inhabitants; she sees exploitable real estate. Anna Nestor views Kawashita as a sideshow attraction until they fall in love. But the two lovebirds cannot be free until they find out who kidnapped Kawashita and why. </div>

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Beyond Heaven's River

<div>&ldquo;A minor classic. A small book but with big characters . . . and great ideas&rdquo; from the Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author of Dinosaur Summer (SF Reviews). The planet Hegira is the universe&rsquo;s melting pot. Hundreds of tribes in dozens of cities intermingle in the vast uncharted territory. The only thing holding the people together are the massive Obelisks, the chronicles of all the truths and falsehoods each tribe has brought to Hegira. Young Bar-Woten is in search of knowledge and he knows the key to the truth about his homeland is contained in the writings of the Obelisks. With his fellow companions, Bar-Woten must travel through Hegira&rsquo;s exotic cities to discover the lies within the words of thousands. </div>

Hegira

<div>Classic fantasy stories from the Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author, &ldquo;one of our very best, and most innovate, speculative writers&rdquo; (New York Daily News). Collecting six stories in old paradigms, Sleepside features Greg Bear&rsquo;s outstanding fantasy writing: &ldquo;Webster,&rdquo; &ldquo;The White Horse Child,&rdquo; &ldquo;Sleepside Story,&rdquo; &ldquo;Dead Run,&rdquo; &ldquo;Through Road No Whither,&rdquo; and the Nebula Award finalist &ldquo;Petra.&rdquo; This edition also includes the special introduction by the author: &ldquo;On Losing the Taint of Being a Cannibal.&quot; </div>

Sleepside

<div>&ldquo;Certain to become a new classic of adventure beyond time . . . An unofficial sequel to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle&rsquo;s The Lost World&rdquo; (Prehistoric Pulp). Fifty years after Professor Challenger&rsquo;s discovery of the Lost World, America&rsquo;s last dinosaur circus has gone bankrupt, leaving a dozen avisaurs, centrosaurs, ankylosaurs, and one large raptor abandoned. Now a daring expedition plans to do the impossible: return the Jurassic giants to the wild. Two filmmakers, a circus trainer, a journalist, and a young Peter Belzoni must find a way to take the dinosaurs across oceans, continents, rivers, jungles, up a mountain that has been isolated for seventy thousand years . . . Then, if they make it, all they will do is face the prehistoric wonders, dangers, and terrors of the Lost World. </div>

Dinosaur Summer

<div>Hailed by readers and critics alike, The Venging has been described as an &ldquo;excellent collection&rdquo; and its author praised as &ldquo;one of the freshest writers to break into the science fiction field in many a year.&rdquo; This is the first published collection of short stories by one of the foremost voices in science fiction today. This significant volume contains many characters and situations that later evolved into their own novels. &ldquo;Mandala&rdquo; features technologically perfect cities that eject their sinful human occupants, a premise that can be found at the root of Bear&rsquo;s later novel, Strength of Stones. In &ldquo;Hardfought,&rdquo; Bear brilliantly handles the classic science fiction dilemma of human communication with aliens. Other stories include &ldquo;The Wind From a Burning Woman&rdquo; in which a woman holds the world hostage by controlling a giant asteroid; &ldquo;Scattershot,&rdquo; in which the inhabitants of many universes meet in an undefined limbo space; and the Nebula Award finalist &ldquo;Petra,&rdquo; a story of a world where chaos rules, stone moves, and the mind controls reality. </div>

The Venging

<div>This doomsday masterpiece from the author of Eon and Hull Zero Three was a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula awards. On July 26, Arthur Gordon learns that Europa, the sixth moon of Jupiter, has disappeared. Not hiding, not turned black, but gone. On September 28th, Edward Shaw finds an error in the geological records of Death Valley. A cinder cone was left off the map. Could it be new? Or, stranger yet, could it be artificial? The answer may be lying beside it&mdash;a dying Guest who brings devastating news for Edward and for Planet Earth. As more unexplained phenomena spring up around the globe&mdash;a granite mountain appearing in Australia, sounds emanating from the earth&rsquo;s core, flashes of light among the asteroids&mdash;it becomes clear to some that the end is approaching, and there is nothing we can do. In The Forge of God, award-winning author Greg Bear describes the final days of the world on both a massive, scientific scale and in the everyday, emotional context of individual human lives. Facing the destruction of all they know, some people turn to God, others to their families, and a few turn to saviors promising escape from a planet being torn apart. Will they make it in time? And who gets left behind to experience the last moments of beauty and chaos on earth? Nominated for the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Awards, The Forge of God is an engrossing read, breathtaking in its scope and in its detail.</div>

The Forge of God

<div>The New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Eon continues the interstellar saga of the Way. A devastating war has left Earth a nuclear wasteland. Orbiting the planet is the asteroid-starship containing the civilization of Thistledown, humanity&rsquo;s future descendants. For decades, they have worked to heal their world and its survivors, but their resources are finite. They need to reopen the Way. An interdimensional gateway to a multiverse of realities, the Way was severed from Thistledown to stop an alien invasion and now exists as its own universe. Reopening the gate would not only benefit Earth but would also help the asteroid&rsquo;s residents return home. But on the alternate world of Gaia, Rhita Vaskayza, daughter of mathematician Patricia Vasquez, has taken up her mother&rsquo;s cause to find her own Earth, one that was never touched by nuclear war. There is a gateway on Gaia that could lead Rhita there&mdash;or unleash an even greater apocalypse across the multiverse . . . &ldquo;Whether he&rsquo;s tinkering with human genetic material or prying apart planets, Bear goes about the task with intelligence and a powerful imagination. Eternity offers many delights&rdquo; (Locus). </div>

Eternity

<div>Nebula Award Finalist: A genetic engineering breakthrough may portend the destruction of humanity in this cyberpunk novel by the author of The Forge of God. This Hugo and Nebula Award finalist follows present-day events in which the fears concerning the nuclear annihilation of the world subsided after the Cold War and the fear of chemical warfare spilled over into the empty void it left behind. An amazing breakthrough in genetic engineering made by Vergil Ulam is considered too dangerous for further research, but rather than destroy his work, he injects himself with his creation and walks out of his lab, unaware of just how his actions will change the world. Author Greg Bear&rsquo;s treatment of the traditional tale of scientific hubris is both suspenseful and a compelling portrait of a new intelligence emerging amongst us, irrevocably changing our world. </div>

Blood Music

<div>Hugo Award Finalist: A near-future novel of artificial intelligence, human nature, and mass murder that &ldquo;succeeds on virtually every level&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). In Los Angeles in 2047, advances in the science of psychology have made crime a rare occurrence. So it&rsquo;s utterly shocking when eight bodies are detected in an apartment, and not long afterward the perpetrator is revealed as well: noted poet Emmanuel Goldsmith. The LAPD&rsquo;s Mary Choy&mdash;who has had both her appearance and her police work enhanced by nanotechnology&mdash;is tasked with arresting the killer, while psychotherapy pioneer Martin Burke prepares to explore his mind. Meanwhile, Goldsmith&rsquo;s good friend and fellow writer reels at the news&mdash;while, far from all of them, a space probe makes a startling discovery. This &ldquo;excellent&rdquo; novel about technology, identity, and the nature of consciousness is a thought-provoking stunner by the Nebula Award&ndash;winning author of the Eon series and the Forerunner Saga (Chicago Tribune). </div>

Queen of Angels

<div>The &ldquo;provocative and entertaining follow-up&rdquo; to The Forge of God: Exiled from their planet, humans unite with one alien race in the fight against another (Publishers Weekly). The Ship of the Law travels the infinite enormity of space, carrying eighty-two young people: fighters, strategists, scientists&mdash;and children. After one alien culture destroyed their home, another offered the opportunity for revenge in the form of a starship built from fragments of the Earth&rsquo;s corpse, a ship they now use to scour the universe in search of their enemy. Working with sophisticated nonhuman technologies that need new thinking to comprehend them, they&rsquo;re cut off forever from the people they left behind. Denied information, they live within a complex system that is both obedient and beyond their control. They&rsquo;re frightened. And they&rsquo;re waging war against entities whose technologies are unimaginably advanced and vast, and whose psychology is ultimately, unknowably alien. In Anvil of Stars, the multimillion-selling, Nebula Award&ndash;winning author of Eon and other science fiction masterpieces &ldquo;fashions an action-packed and often thrilling plot; by using each of the well-depicted alien races to mirror human behavior, he defines what it means to be Homo sapiens. . . . A gripping story&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly).</div>

Anvil of Stars

<div>Artificially intelligent cities rise up against humanity in this &ldquo;excellent novel. It came on me as a surprise, and it knocked me out!&rdquo; (Harlan Ellison). In a theocratic world far into the future, cities control their own movements and organization. Constantly moving, growing and decaying, taking care of every need their inhabitants might think of, the cities have decided that humans are no longer a necessary part of their architecture, casting them out to wander in the wilderness and eke out a meager subsistence. To the exiled humans, the cities represent a paradisiacal Eden, a reminder of all they cannot attain due to their sinful and unworthy natures. But things are beginning to change. People are no longer willing to allow the cities to keep them out, choosing instead to force an entry and plunder at will. The cities are starting to crumble and die because they have no purpose or reason to continue living without citizens. One woman, called mad by some and wise by others, is the only human allowed to inhabit a city. From her lonely and precarious position at the heart of one of the greatest cities ever, she must decide the fate of the relationship between human society and the ancient strongholds of knowledge, while making one last desperate attempt to save the living cities. </div>

Strength of Stones

<div>A Nebula Award&ndash;winning novella by the author of Moving Mars and the Eon trilogy. Humans have been engaged in a long war against an advanced alien race, the Senexi. But the possibility for peace may finally exist, thanks to a young girl who learns of the enemy&rsquo;s larger role and humanity&rsquo;s opportunity to evolve, in this award-winning story by the author of Darwin&rsquo;s Radio and many other highly acclaimed works of science fiction. </div>

Hardfought

<div>The world just keeps getting tougher and more complicated. America teeters on the edge of bankruptcy because of crushing foreign debt and an apparent savior, The Talos Corporation, delivers training for soldiers and security forces around the world, logistical support and badly-needed troops economically, but with a hidden cost that&rsquo;s both sinister and disturbing. The three rookie FBI agents who survived the challenges portrayed in Quantico, have gone their separate ways but seem fated to be drawn back together in an alliance against a surprising challenge for which no one seems prepared. Rebecca Rose is brought back from an extended sabbatical when the President is shot and her second-in-command is implicated in an horrific crime&mdash;and all the threads point deeper into Talos&rsquo;s secretive activities. Fouad Al-Husam, working undercover inside Talos, has uncovered and been forced to hide vital information of a takeover plot that threatens America&rsquo;s independence. Nathan Trace, victim of a violent incident in the Middle East, struggles with post-traumatic stress and seems to be recovering through participation in a treatment program, code-named Mariposa, which has unexpected side-effects that turn patients into brilliant, detached and sociopathic individuals&mdash;very smart and extremely deadly. Only a desperate combination of misfits and survivors can combat an apparently inevitable collapse of American organization that will lead to the fall of democracy. </div>

Mariposa

<div>An evil spawned from the horrors of World War II wreaks havoc on a small New Mexico town in this novel from the &ldquo;master of the grand-scale SF novel&rdquo; (Booklist). Curiosity may kill Larry Fowler. A scientist from New Mexico, Fowler is hot on the trail of a mysterious phenomenon that is known to freeze animals instantly and can demolish an entire town. Part ghost story, part science fiction, part political treatise, Greg Bear&#39;s novel tracks Fowler on his journey to discover the true nature of the PSYCHLONE. </div>

Psychlone

<div>A galaxy-altering scientific breakthrough on Mars inspires treachery and revolution in this Nebula Award&ndash;winning science fiction epic. The child of one of the oldest, most revered family-corporate units on colonized Mars, Casseia Majumdar has spent her entire life in the tunnels that run beneath the surface of her homeworld. As a young college student in 2171, the fifty-third year of the Martian settlement, she experiences a profound political awakening, and her embrace of radical activism only intensifies following a failed diplomatic mission to Earth. As she rises up through the political ranks back on Mars&mdash;with tensions increasing between an oppressive &ldquo;Mother Earth&rdquo; and her rebellious &ldquo;Red Rabbit&rdquo; children&mdash;Casseia soon realizes that an enlightened ideology alone will not save her planet and its people. But it is a staggering scientific discovery by Martian physicist Charles Franklin&mdash;Casseia&rsquo;s mentor and former lover&mdash;that will ultimately reveal the depths of the perfidy of the &ldquo;Terries,&rdquo; forcing an imperiled civilization to alter forever the map of the universe. A two-time winner of the Nebula Award and a multiple Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, the great Greg Bear has been called &ldquo;the complete master of the grand scale sf novel&rdquo; (Booklist). His Moving Mars is a masterful extrapolation of contentious humanity&rsquo;s possible future and a modern classic to be shelved alongside the acclaimed Mars novels of Ben Bova and Kim Stanley Robinson. It&rsquo;s &ldquo;as good as hard science fiction gets&rdquo; (The Oregonian). </div>

Moving Mars

<div>A New York Times Notable Book: &ldquo;Hard science and human interest intersect ingeniously in this prequel to [Greg] Bear&rsquo;s Eon and Eternity&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). The Way is a tunnel to the multiverse, infinite possible realities throughout the universe. From its entranceway in Axis City, the space station at the center of the asteroid-starship Thistledown, one may travel to any world and any time. Lamarckia is a world very much like Earth, but populated by shapeshifting biological forms. More than four thousand colonists have illegally used the Way to settle there, and the ruling gatekeepers fear that the interaction between humans and aliens could prove devastating to the future of both species. Now, Olmy Ap Sennon has been sent to Lamarckia to spy on the colonists and investigate their effect on their new home. As he witnesses their struggle to survive their unforgiving environment&mdash;and each other&mdash;Olmy experiences all of the joy and heartache that comes from a life worth living, in &ldquo;a stunning SF novel that extrapolates a scientifically complex future from the basic stuff of human nature&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly, starred review). </div>

Legacy

<div>Music, myth, and magic mix in this tale of a melody not meant for human ears, from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling and award-winning author of Darwin&rsquo;s Radio. Michael Perrin is an aspiring poet, struggling to express the chaotic cadences of his thoughts on paper. He finds a kindred spirit in Arno Waltiri, the film score composer behind several of Michael&rsquo;s favorite classic movies. The maestro&rsquo;s greatest piece, however, was performed in front of a live audience only once. The concerto Opus 45, Infinity left its listeners entranced, altered to the very core of their souls. Waltiri&rsquo;s composition is a song of power. Never meant to be heard by human ears, its melody is as captivating as a siren&rsquo;s call, its notes ring out like a death knell, and its rhythms shake the very foundations of reality. The music&rsquo;s otherworldly tones have led Michael through the gate between Earth and the Realm of the Sidhedark, where faeries reign by rule of magic&mdash;and where Michael must find his muse if he&rsquo;s ever to return home. The Infinity Concerto is a fantasy masterpiece by the Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author of the Forerunner Saga, Eon, and other imaginative classics. </div>

The Infinity Concerto

<div>From the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of War Dogs: A novel that &ldquo;may be the best constructed hard SF epic yet&rdquo; (The Washington Post). In a supernova flash, the asteroid arrived and entered Earth&rsquo;s orbit. Three hundred kilometers in length, it is not solid rock but a series of hollowed-out chambers housing ancient, abandoned cities of human origin, a civilization named Thistledown. The people who lived there survived a nuclear holocaust that nearly rendered humanity extinct&mdash;more than a thousand years from now. To prevent this future from coming to pass, theoretical mathematician Patricia Vasquez must explore Thistledown and decipher its secret history. But what she discovers is an even greater mystery, a tunnel that exists beyond the physical dimensions of the asteroid. Called the Way, it leads to the home of humanity&rsquo;s descendants, and to a conflict greater than the impending war between Earth&rsquo;s superpowers over the fate of the asteroid, in &ldquo;the grandest work yet&rdquo; by Nebula Award&ndash;winning author Greg Bear (Locus). </div>

<div>The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem has been blown to bits by extremists, and, in retaliation, thousands have died in another major attack on the United States. Now the FBI has been dispatched to deal with a new menace. A plague targeted to ethnic groups--Jews or Muslims or both--has the potential to wipe out entire populations. But the FBI itself is under political assault. There&#39;s a good chance agents William Griffin, Fouad Al-Husam, and Jane Rowland will be part of the last class at Quantico. As the young agents hunt a brilliant homegrown terrorist, they join forces with veteran bio-terror expert Rebecca Rose. But the plot they uncover--and the man they chase--prove to be far more complex than anyone expects.</div>

Quantico

<div>The &ldquo;reigning master of hard-edge science fiction takes a chilling look at the plausible near-future&rdquo; in this cyberpunk sequel to Queen of Angels (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). In the second half of the twenty-first century, nanotechnology has transformed every aspect of society. Humans can now change their abilities, their appearance, their very bodies on microscopic level. Advanced psychotherapy seems to have wiped away violence and illness. The world is sane and in balance. However, that balance teeters with the grisly murder of two prostitutes and a series of suicides. Soon, public defender Mary Cho&rsquo;s investigation finds a dark danger lurking in the recesses of the &ldquo;dataflow.&rdquo; Entertainment, virtual pornography, neo-Luddite separatists, an unknown artificial intelligence&mdash;everything seems to be intertwined in a vast conspiracy. As technology fails so too does the society perched high atop it. Perfection is a high pedestal from which to fall.</div>

Slant

<div>From the New York Times&ndash;bestselling and award-winning author of The Infinity Concerto, the fantasy saga continues . . . After five years trapped in the Realm of the Sidhedark, Michael Perrin has returned home. He wants nothing more than to live a normal life&mdash;but the unearthly music of Arno Waltiri continues to play on. The song of power has weakened the veil between the human and faerie worlds. The streets of Los Angeles are haunted by uncanny beings, strange bodies have been discovered in a dilapidated hotel, and an ancient creature calls to Michael from the waters of a loch in Scotland. The Sidhe have followed Michael home. To repair the rift between Earth and Realm, man and fae, he will have to wield the magic he wished he never learned&mdash;and complete an unfinished symphony linked to the ethereal melody of Waltiri&rsquo;s Opus 45, the Infinity Concerto. This follow-up to The Infinity Concerto is a work of fresh, out-of-the-ordinary fantasy by an acclaimed winner of the Nebula and Hugo Awards, the author of The Forge of God, the Forerunner Saga, and other reader favorites. </div>

The Serpent Mage

<div>7 remarkable stories, newly revised for this collection, showcase the award-winning talents of one of the 21st century&rsquo;s finest writers of speculative fiction Whether penning science fiction (Moving Mars, Queen of Angels, War Dogs), alternate history (the Mongoliad series with Neal Stephenson), or fantasy (Sleepside, The Infinity Concerto), Greg Bear tells stories that engage the reader&rsquo;s intellect while gripping the imagination. His short fiction is no exception. Beyond the Farthest Suns takes readers to the far end of the universe and the borders of scientific understanding. The volume includes: &middot; &ldquo;The Way of All Ghosts,&rdquo; set in the bestselling universe of Eon and Eternity; &middot; &ldquo;The Venging,&rdquo; which takes a group of desperate fugitives fleeing alien dominance down into the awesome gateway of a black hole; &middot; &ldquo;The Fall of the House of Escher,&rdquo; in which a world-famous illusionist is brought back from the dead for a terrifying command performance; &middot; &ldquo;Hardfought,&rdquo; the critically acclaimed Nebula Award&ndash;winning story showcasing a far future in which a legendary female pilot and her alien captor are forced into a tapestry of echoing lives where they struggle to communicate and find the deepest secrets of their history. These works, along with 3 additional entries, stunningly illustrate how Bear interweaves the rationality of science with remarkable characters whose thoughts and emotions reflect our own. </div>

Beyond the Farthest Suns

<div>A harrowing thriller based on real-life discoveries in cell theory and the battle against aging and death by the bestselling author of Darwin&rsquo;s Radio and War Dogs Scientist Hal Cousins is on the brink of success in his quest to determine the biological underpinnings of immortality. Funded by angel investors, the brilliant researcher makes a trip by submersible to the bottom of the sea, searching for primitive one-celled organisms that may be related to the earliest life forms on Earth. But the trip turns into a nightmare when Cousins&rsquo;s pilot goes berserk and turns on him. The homicidal attack is only the first in a series of events that sends the biochemist on the run, pursued by faceless enemies who want his studies terminated and Cousins dead. Cousins must face the realization that his research has brought him into contact with a vast conspiracy. Across the country, scientists are being murdered to cover up the fact that someone has discovered how to control minds through bacterial manipulation&mdash;and that the trigger bacteria now infects much of the world&rsquo;s population. Discredited and not knowing whom to trust, Cousins must gamble everything with Earth&rsquo;s very survival at stake. Award-winning author Greg Bear creates a tense, stunningly plausible thriller all too firmly rooted in scientific fact.</div>

Vitals

<div>The New York Times Book Review hails this collection of thirteen dazzling stories and a rare screenplay by Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author Greg Bear as a &ldquo;solid introduction to the oeuvre of a classic writer.&rdquo; Greg Bear&mdash;author of Queen of Angels, Eon, and Hull Zero Three, among many other hugely popular novels&mdash;has an ability to transform challenging scientific concepts into gripping fiction that has won him numerous awards and an avid following. He has written novels about interstellar war, human evolution, intelligent bacteria, international terrorism, and the exploration of deep space&mdash;but he doesn&rsquo;t stop there. This brilliant collection of Bear&rsquo;s stories, each newly revised by the author, proves he is a master of the short form as well. Just Over the Horizon offers thirteen mind-bending explorations of the near future . . . or just beyond the border of conventional reality. The volume includes: &middot; &ldquo;Blood Music,&rdquo; a Hugo and Nebula award&ndash;winning classic and the basis for the novel of the same name&mdash;and the first science-fictional exploration of nanotechnology; &middot; &ldquo;Sisters,&rdquo; in which high school students find maturity and family by confronting a tragic genetic destiny; &middot; &ldquo;Tangents,&rdquo; winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, about a persecuted scientist who seeks refuge in a better world; &middot; &ldquo;Dead Run,&rdquo; a tale of union truck drivers ferrying souls through Death Valley into Hell, adapted for an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone; &middot; &ldquo;Sleepside Story,&rdquo; which Bear calls one of his favorite pieces, an urban fantasy tale that takes a music student by Night Metro to the Sleepside mansion of a magical woman of the night, inverting &ldquo;Beauty and the Beast&rdquo; in a very modern mirror; &middot; &ldquo;Genius,&rdquo; the screenplay written for the television series Outer Limits, but never produced. Just Over the Horizon combines Bear&rsquo;s intense concern with the human condition with a deep understanding of science, resulting in a collection long to be remembered. </div>

Just Over the Horizon

<div>6 dazzling stories, freshly revised for this volume, plus new introductions, commentary, and reminiscences from the Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author of War Dogs, Eternity, and The Forge of God Greg Bear is the author of more than 30 books, from thrillers (Darwin&rsquo;s Radio, Vitals) to science fiction (Blood Music, Eon, Hull Zero Three) to pure fantasy (The Infinity Concerto, The Serpent Mage). He has won 5 Nebula and 2 Hugo Awards, his works have been translated into more than 20 languages, and his titles have sold millions of copies worldwide. But his skills are not confined to writing at full-length novels: He is also the author of dozens of brilliant short stories, novellas, and novelettes. Far Thoughts and Pale Gods contains 6 highly acclaimed stories, each newly revised by the author, that illustrate Bear&rsquo;s abundant breadth of talent. The volume includes: &middot; &ldquo;Heads,&rdquo; which marks the first time the concept of quantum computing appears in science fiction&mdash;though it is a vision of 400 frozen heads that will remain in the reader&rsquo;s memory; &middot; &ldquo;The Wind from a Burning Woman,&rdquo; the first story set in the universe that spawned the novels Eon and Eternity; &middot; &ldquo;Plague of Conscience,&rdquo; which explores what it means to be alien&mdash;and whether that can be comprehended without understanding what it means to be human; &middot; &ldquo;Scattershot,&rdquo; beginning &ldquo;The teddy bear spoke excellent Mandarin,&rdquo; a gripping deep-space adventure that is also a tribute to legendary female science fiction writer James Tiptree Jr. These and the remaining entries&mdash;&ldquo;Mandala&rdquo; and &ldquo;Petra&rdquo;&mdash;form a remarkable collection showcasing the talents of a major American writer. Each story is accompanied by an introduction and an afterword written especially for this volume. </div>

Far Thoughts and Pale Gods

<div>A space-traveling Jesuit priest confronts a moral but godless alien race in this Hugo Award&ndash;winning novel by the author of the Cities in Flight saga. Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man, a Jesuit priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He doesn&rsquo;t feel any genuine conflicts in his belief system&mdash;until he is sent to Lithia. The reptilian inhabitants of this distant world appear to be admirable in every way. Untroubled by greed or lust, they live in peace. But they have no concept of God, no literature, and no art. They rely purely on cold reason. But something darker lies beneath the surface: Do the Lithians pose a hidden threat? The answers that unfold could affect the fate of two worlds. Will Ruiz-Sanchez, a priest driven by his deeply human understanding of good and evil, do the right thing when confronted by a race that is alien to its core? The Science Fiction Encyclopedia lauds A Case of Conscience as &ldquo;one of the first serious attempts to deal with religion [in science fiction], and [it] remains one of the most sophisticated. It is generally regarded as an SF classic.&rdquo; Readers of Isaac Asimov&rsquo;s Foundation Trilogy, Mary Doria Russell&rsquo;s The Sparrow, or Walter M. Miller Jr.&rsquo;s A Canticle for Leibowitz will find this award-winning novel a gripping, compelling exploration of some of the most intractable and important questions faced by the human species. Includes an introduction by Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author Greg Bear.</div>

A Case of Conscience

<div>This saga of parallel universes from a Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author &ldquo;may be the best constructed hard SF epic yet&rdquo; (The Washington Post). One of the world&rsquo;s preeminent New York Times&ndash;bestselling authors of hard science fiction mesmerizes readers with a mind-expanding, three-volume masterwork about the creation of an alternate universe that breaks down all barriers of time and space, and its consequences for future and past generations. Legacy: In the stunning prequel to Eon and Eternity, an agent of the masters of the Way&mdash;a man-made tunnel through countless dimensions&mdash;follows a renegade fanatic and his four thousand acolytes to a remarkable world of flora/fauna hybrids, where he is plunged into the terrible chaos of a raging civil war. Eon: As nuclear tensions rapidly reach a breaking point in a volatile twenty-first century, a hollowed-out asteroid appears, mysteriously hovering above the Earth&rsquo;s surface. The asteroid contains the remains of Thistledown, an abandoned city that was once home to survivors of a nuclear holocaust. Scientists must race to unravel its secrets before the human race is annihilated in the impending apocalypse. Eternity: A devastating war has left Earth a nuclear wasteland. Orbiting the planet is an asteroid-starship containing the civilization of Thistledown, humanity&rsquo;s future descendants. For decades, they have worked to heal their world and its survivors, but their resources are finite. They need to reopen the Way, a gate that would not only benefit Earth but also help the asteroid&rsquo;s residents return home. Greg Bear&rsquo;s classic Eon trilogy is an astonishing feat of the imagination that combines humanism, cutting-edge science, and brilliant extrapolation. This masterful science fiction saga has no equal in contemporary speculative fiction. </div>

The Eon Series

<div>A Nebula Award winner presents tales that shaped modern science fiction and fantasy&mdash;five complete novels by Mark Twain, H. G. Wells, and more. In this handpicked collection, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author Greg Bear travels back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when novelists let their imaginations soar beyond conventional boundaries of time and space and contributed to the emergence of imaginative new literary genres. In 1889, Mark Twain introduced Americans to time travel in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur&rsquo;s Court, in which a hard-headed New Englander is sent back through history to the age of chivalry. Six years later, H. G. Wells propelled an intrepid inventor into the far future via The Time Machine; there, our fearless hero discovers a nightmarish evolutionary scenario in which technologically advanced but mutated Morlocks dwell underground, preying on the innocent aboveground Eloi. In 1912, long before Ray Bradbury or Star Wars, Edgar Rice Burroughs imagined the first wildly popular alternative fantasy/alien culture with A Princess of Mars, transporting readers from Arizona to the red planet, where Confederate soldier John Carter is swept up in another kind of civil war and seduced by a gorgeous red-hued princess. In 1920, Scottish novelist David Lindsay presented A Voyage to Arcturus, an interstellar quest for truth as well as an inquiry into the nature of good and evil that inspired generations of fantasy writers to come. And in 1922, E. R. Eddison turned the planet Mercury into a fantasy version of Earth where demons and witches wage war on a Homeric scale in The Worm Ouroboros. With an insightful introduction, Bear celebrates the writers who first swept readers away to other times and worlds&mdash;and blew their minds in ways that altered our literary landscape and collective imagination forever.</div>

Journeys Through Time & Space

<div>From a New York Times&ndash;bestselling author: A new kind of phone awakens the dead in this technological horror novel &ldquo;reminiscent of Koontz at his best&rdquo; (Booklist). Ever since his life was shattered by the kidnapping and murder of his young daughter, Peter Russell has become a ghost of a man. Once a successful director of adult films, he has been reduced to running questionable errands for an eccentric California millionaire. But everything changes when a Los Angeles start-up offers him the opportunity to create promotional videos for their revolutionary new technology, Trans. The product offers exceptionally powerful, crystal-clear mobile communication that can operate anywhere and everywhere&mdash;and Peter sets out to put it into every palm. But as he uses the device himself, he starts to see his murdered little girl . . . Soon, there are other voices&mdash;disembodied, confused, angry&mdash;emanating from a newly invaded dimension. Many are even malevolent . . . and hungry . . . and deadly. As the death toll of Trans-users skyrockets, Peter&rsquo;s life begins a new spiral downward. Now, he must race to make sense of the horror Trans has wrought before the gateway to Hell bursts wide open. With Dead Lines, author of the Eon series Greg Bear transforms the literary realm of Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, and Stephen King into something unique by ingeniously blending the speculative with the supernatural. You&rsquo;ll never look at your phone the same way again. </div>

Dead Lines

<div>Music, myth, and magic mix&mdash;in this two-volume fantasy masterpiece by a New York Times&ndash;bestselling author that is a &ldquo;joy to read&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author Greg Bear explores the power of music to open a portal between worlds in this pair of brilliantly imagined fantasy novels. The Infinity Concerto: Following the instructions of a virtuoso composer&mdash;whose controversial Concerto Opus 45 is actually a song of power&mdash;young poet Michael Perrin passes through a gateway between Earth and the Realm of the Sidhedark, where faeries reign by rule of magic, and Michael&rsquo;s epic journey begins . . . The Serpent Mage: After five years trapped in the Realm of the Sidhedark, Michael has returned home to Los Angeles. But the song of power has weakened the veil between the human and fairie worlds, and the Sidhe have followed him to the other side . . .</div>

Greg Bear

Books By Greg Bear (30 Books)