Editing Greg Bear (section)

==Awards and accolades==
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! Work  !! Year & Award!! Category!! Result !! Ref.
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| ''The Venging''||1976 [[Locus Award]]||Novelette||{{Nominated}}||<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/Greg_Bear | title=Sfadb : Greg Bear Awards }}</ref>
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| ''Schrödinger's Plague''||1982 Analog Award||Short Story||'''4th Place'''||<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?1+1982 | title=1982 Analog Award }}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="4" |''Petra''
|1983 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1983 [[World Fantasy Award]]
|Short Fiction
|{{nom}}
|-
|1983 [[Nebula Award]]
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1983 SF Chronicle Award
|Short Story
|{{Won}}
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?36+1983 | title=1983 SF Chronicle Award }}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="10" |''[[Blood Music (novel)|Blood Music]]''
|1984 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1984 [[Hugo Award]]
||Novelette
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|1984 Nebula Award
|Novelette
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|1986 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1986 Hugo Award
|Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1986 [[John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel|John W. Campbell Memorial Award]]
|Science Fiction Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1986 [[Prix Apollo Award]]
|      -
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|1986 [[BSFA Award]]
|Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1986 Nebula Award
|Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1988 [[Tähtivaeltaja Award]]
|        -
|{{Won}}
|
|-
| rowspan="7" |''Tangents''
|1987 Locus Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1987 Hugo Award
|Short Story
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|1987 Nebula Award
|Short Story
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|1987 SF Chronicle Award
|Short Story
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?36+1987 | title=1987 SF Chronicle Award }}</ref>
|-
|1990 Locus Award
|Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1994 [[Seiun Award]]
|Best Translated Short Story
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|1998 [[Kurd Laßwitz Award]]
|Foreign Work
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?64+1998 | title=1998 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis }}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="4" |''Hardfought''
|1984 Locus Award
|Novella
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1984 Hugo Award
|Novella
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1984 SF Chronicle Award
|Novella
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?36+1984 | title=1984 SF Chronicle Award }}</ref>
|-
|1984 Nebula Award
|Novella
|{{Won}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''[[Eon (novel)|Eon]]''
|1986 Locus
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1987 [[Arthur C. Clarke Award]]
|      -
|{{CFinalist}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''[[The Infinity Concerto]]''
|1985 Locus Award
|Fantasy Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''[[The Wind from a Burning Woman]]''
|1983 Locus Award
|Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''[[Serpent Mage (Greg Bear)|The Serpent Mage]]''
|1987 Locus Award
|Fantasy Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="3" |''[[The Forge of God]]''
|1988 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1988 Hugo Award
|Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1988 Nebula Award
|Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''[[Eternity (novel)|Eternity]]''
|1989 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''Sisters''
|1990 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1990 Nebula Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''Sleepside Story''
|1990 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="5" |''Heads''
|1991 Interzone Readers Poll
|Fiction
|'''4th Place'''
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/Interzone_Readers_Poll_1991 | title=Sfadb: Interzone Readers Poll 1991 }}</ref>
|-
|1991 Locus Award
|Novella
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1996 [[Hayakawa's S-F Magazine Reader's Award]]
|Foreign Short Story
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|1996 Kurd Laßwitz Award
|Foreign Work
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?64+1996 | title=1996 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis }}</ref>
|-
|1997 Seiun Award
|Translated Short Story
|{{Won}}
|
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| rowspan="3" |''[[Queen of Angels (novel)|Queen of Angels]]''
|1991 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
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|1991 [[John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel|John W. Campbell Memorial Award]]
|Science Fiction Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
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|1991 Hugo Award
|Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''Bear's Fantasies''
|1993 World Fantasy Award]]
|Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|
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| rowspan="1" |''[[Anvil of Stars]]''
|1993 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
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| rowspan="7" |''[[Moving Mars]]''
|1994 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1994 Hugo Award
|Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1994 [[John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel|John W. Campbell Memorial Award]]
|Science Fiction Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1994 SF Chronicle Award
|Novel
|{{Won}}
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?36+1994 | title=1994 SF Chronicle Award }}</ref>
|-
|1995 Nebula Award
|Novel
|{{Won}}
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|1996 [[Premio Ignotus]]
|Foreign Novel
|{{Won}}
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|1998 Seiun Award
|Translated Long Work
|{{Nominated}}
|
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| rowspan="1" |''Judgement Engine''
|1996 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}||
|-
| rowspan="2" |''[[Legacy (1995 novel)|Legacy]]''
|1996 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
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| 1998 [[Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire]]
|Foreign Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?25+1998 | title=1998 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire }}</ref>
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| rowspan="1" |''New Legends''
|1996 Locus Award
|Anthology
|{{Nominated}}
|
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| rowspan="1" |''[[Strength of Stones]]''
|1997 Kurd Laßwitz Award
|Foreign Work
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?64+1997 | title=1997 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis }}</ref>
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| rowspan="5" |''Slant (/)''
|1998 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
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|1998 [[John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel|John W. Campbell Memorial Award]]
|Science Fiction Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
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|1999 SF Site Readers Poll
|SF/Fantasy Book
|'''5th Place'''
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/SF_Site_Readers_Poll_1999 | title=Sfadb: SF Site Readers Poll 1999 }}</ref>
|-
|2000 Prix Ozone
|Foreign SF Novel
|{{Won}}
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bdfi.net/prix/prix.php?id=ozone | title=Pages prix }}</ref>
|-
|2002 Kurd Laßwitz Award
|Foreign Work
|{{Nominated}}
||<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?64+2002 | title=2002 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis }}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3" |''Dinosaur Summer''
|1998 Sidewise Award for Alternate History
|Long Form
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/Sidewise_Awards_1999 | title=Sfadb: Sidewise Awards 1999 }}</ref>
|-
|1999 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
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|1999 [[Endeavour Award]]
|     - 
|{{Won}}
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| rowspan="7" |''[[Darwin's Radio]]''
|2000 Endeavour Award
|Novel or Collection
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|2000 [[John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel|John W. Campbell Memorial Award]]
|Science Fiction Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2000 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2000 Hugo Award
|Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2001 Seiun Award
|Translated Long Work
|{{Nominated}}
|
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|2001 Nebula Award
|Novel
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|2002 [[Premio Ignotus]]
|Foreign Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
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| rowspan="1" |''The Way of All Ghosts''
|2000 Locus Award
|Novella
|{{Nominated}}
|
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| rowspan="1" |''The Collected Stories of Greg Bear''
|2003 Locus Award
|Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''[[Vitals (novel)|Vitals]]''
|2003 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
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|2003 [[John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel|John W. Campbell Memorial Award]]
|Science Fiction Novel
|{{CFinalist}}
|
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| rowspan="5" |''[[Darwin's Children]]''
|2004 [[John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel|John W. Campbell Memorial Award]]
|Science Fiction Novel
|{{CFinalist}}
|
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|2004 [[Audie Awards]]
|Science Fiction
|{{Nominated}}
|
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|2004 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
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|2004 Arthur C. Clarke Award
|        -
|{{CFinalist}}
|
|-
|2005 Kurd Laßwitz Award
|Foreign Work
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?64+2005 | title=2005 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis }}</ref>
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| rowspan="1" |''[[Dead Lines]]''
|2005 Locus Award
|Fantasy Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
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| rowspan="1" |''[[Quantico (novel)|Quantico]]''
|2006 Endeavour Award
|    -
|{{Nominated}}
|
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| rowspan="3" |''[[City at the End of Time]]''
|2008 Neffy Awards
|Laureate Awards: SF/F Author
|{{Won}}
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://tnfff.org/neffy-awards/ | title=Laureate Awards – National Fantasy Fan Federation }}</ref>
|-
|2009 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2009 [[John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel|John W. Campbell Memorial Award]]
|Science Fiction Novel
|{{CFinalist}}
|
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| rowspan="4" |''[[Hull Zero Three]]''
|2011 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2011 [[John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel|John W. Campbell Memorial Award]]
|Science Fiction Novel
|{{CFinalist}}
|
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|2012 Arthur C. Clarke Award
|      -
|{{Nominated}}
|
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|2012 Kurd Laßwitz Award
|Foreign Work
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?64+2012 | title=2012 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis }}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="1" |''War Dogs''
|2015 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''The Machine Starts''
|2016 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}
|
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| rowspan="1" |''Take Back the Sky''
|2017 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|}


In addition, Bear is also a singular award winner of the 1984 [[Inkpot Award]], the 2006 [[Robert A. Heinlein Award]], the 2017 "Forry Award"<ref>{{cite web | url=https://lasfs.org/the-forry-awards/ | title=The Forry Awards }}</ref> for lifetime achievement & the [[Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association]]'s 2022 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award/solstice-award/ | title=Nebula Awards® Nominees and Winners: Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award Nebula Awards® }}</ref>

[[Doris Lessing]], winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature, wrote, "I also admire the classic sort of science fiction, like ''Blood Music'', by Greg Bear. He's a great writer."<ref>''[http://www.dorislessing.org/boston.html Doris Lessing: Hot Dawns]'', interview by Harvey Blume in Boston Book Review.</ref> The 2024 novel ''Halo: Epitaph'', a continuation of Bear's [[Forerunner Saga]], was dedicated to Bear's memory by author [[Kelly Gay]].