Editing Greg Bear (section)

==Personal life and death==
In 1975, Bear married Christina M. Nielson; they divorced in 1981. In 1983, he married Astrid Anderson, the daughter of the science fiction and fantasy authors [[Poul Anderson|Poul]] and [[Karen Anderson (writer)|Karen Anderson]]. They had two children, Chloe and Alexandra, and resided near [[Seattle]], Washington.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/greg-bear-1951-2022-best-190122288.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS9zZWFyY2g_cT1HcmVnK2JlYXIrc2VhdHRsZSZobD1lbiZzYWZlPW9mZg&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAALE-StdBm3z7nzV0ZoolO-StoZwYfjW5GDBXEg7NrA5xGK1OyEM1H2qBzXueLhMhx5ypsctzaliI2MEGyv-XXyduP84oedVGzAiL0aDJx8pZGq7h_wbADz-VgyMEk0tnbUozHG4qbHcici83Ih4lBf7RJ0-zRo6ZGIEbt5ciCts | title=Greg Bear, 1951-2022: Best-selling writer influenced sci-fi world, on and off the page | work=Yahoo Finance | date=November 20, 2022 }}</ref>

Bear died on November 19, 2022, at the age of 71, from  multiple strokes, caused by clots that had been hiding in a false [[Lumen (anatomy)|lumen]] of the anterior artery to the brain since a surgery in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Glyer |first=Mike |date=2022-11-20 |title=Pixel Scroll 11/19/22 Scroll And Deliver, Your Pixels Or Your Life! |url=https://file770.com/pixel-scroll-11-19-22-scroll-and-deliver-your-pixels-or-your-life/ |access-date=2022-11-20 |website=File 770 |language=en-US}}</ref> After he had been on life support for two days and was not expected to recover, per his [[advance healthcare directive]], life support was withdrawn.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bear |first=Astrid |date=Nov 18, 2022 |title=Update on Greg |url=https://www.facebook.com/astrid.bear/posts/pfbid045PjKbttdAiaBysKLooESWGpna6h5MdvkAXX97rQxz3V1MPdYWMukydSzq2h3GYyl |access-date=2022-11-20 |website=Facebook |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Glyer |first=Mike |date=2022-11-20 |title=Greg Bear (1951-2022) |url=https://file770.com/greg-bear-1951-2022/ |access-date=2022-11-20 |website=File 770 |language=en-US}}</ref>