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Greg Bear (Gregory Dale Bear) was born on 20 August, 1951 in San Diego, California, U.S., is an American writer and illustrator (1951–2022). Discover Greg Bear's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?

Popular As Gregory Dale Bear
Occupation Novelist
Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 20 August 1951
Birthday 20 August
Birthplace San Diego, California, U.S.
Date of death 19 November, 2022
Died Place N/A
Nationality United States

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1951

Gregory Dale Bear (August 20, 1951 – November 19, 2022) was an American writer and illustrator best known for science fiction.

His work covered themes of galactic conflict (Forge of God books), parallel universes (The Way series), consciousness and cultural practices (Queen of Angels), and accelerated evolution (Blood Music, Darwin's Radio, and Darwin's Children).

His last work was the 2021 novel The Unfinished Land.

Greg Bear wrote over 50 books in total.

Greg Bear was born in San Diego, California.

1966

Its continuing character Jill was inspired in part by Robert A. Heinlein's self-aware computer Mycroft HOLMES in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966).

Bear, Gregory Benford, and David Brin wrote a trilogy of prequel novels to Isaac Asimov's influential Foundation trilogy.

Bear is credited with the middle book.

While most of Bear's work is science fiction, he has written in other fiction genres.

Examples include Songs of Earth and Power (fantasy) and Psychlone (horror).

Bear has described his Dead Lines, which straddles the line between science fiction and fantasy, as a "high-tech ghost story".

He has received many accolades, including five Nebula Awards and two Hugo Awards.

Bear cited Ray Bradbury as the most influential writer in his life.

1967

He sold his first story, "Destroyers", to Famous Science Fiction in 1967.

In his fiction, Bear often addresses major questions in contemporary science and culture and proposes solutions.

For example, The Forge of God offers an explanation for the Fermi paradox, supposing that the galaxy is filled with potentially predatory intelligences and that young civilizations that survive are those that do not attract their attention but stay quiet.

In Queen of Angels, Bear examines crime, guilt, and punishment in society.

He frames these questions around an examination of consciousness and awareness, including the emergent self-awareness of highly advanced computers in communication with humans.

In Darwin's Radio and Darwin's Children, he addresses the problem of overpopulation with a mutation in the human genome making, basically, a new series of humans.

The question of cultural acceptance of something new and unavoidable is also indicated.

One of Bear's favorite themes is reality as a function of observation.

In Blood Music, reality becomes unstable as the number of observers (trillions of intelligent single-cell organisms) spirals higher and higher.

Anvil of Stars (sequel to The Forge of God) and Moving Mars postulate a physics based on information exchange between particles, capable of being altered at the "bit level."

In Moving Mars, that knowledge is used to remove Mars from the Solar System and transfer it to an orbit around a distant star.

He met Bradbury in 1967 and had a lifelong correspondence.

As a teenager, Bear attended Bradbury lectures and events in Southern California.

He also served on the Board of Advisors for the Museum of Science Fiction.

Bear was also one of the five co-founders of the San Diego Comic-Con.

1968

He attended San Diego State University (1968–1973), where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree.

At the university, he was a teaching assistant to Elizabeth Chater in her course on science fiction writing, and in later years her friend.

Bear is often classified as a hard science fiction author because of the level of scientific detail in his work.

Early in his career, he also published work as an artist, including illustrations for an early version of the reference book Star Trek Concordance and covers for periodicals Galaxy and F&SF.

1975

In 1975, Bear married Christina M. Nielson; they divorced in 1981.

1983

Blood Music was first published as a short story (1983) and then expanded to a novel (1985).

It has also been credited as the first account of nanotechnology in science fiction.

More certainly, the short story is the first in science fiction to describe microscopic medical machines and to treat DNA as a computational system capable of being reprogrammed, that is, expanded and modified.

In later works, beginning with Queen of Angels and continuing with its sequel, Slant, Bear gives a detailed description of a near-future nanotechnological society.

This historical sequence continues with Heads—which may contain the first description of a so-called "quantum logic computer"—and with Moving Mars.

The sequence also charts the historical development of self-awareness in artificial intelligence.

In 1983, he married Astrid Anderson, the daughter of the science fiction and fantasy authors Poul and Karen Anderson.