Editing Greg Bear

{{Short description|American writer and illustrator (1951–2022)}}
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{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->
| name = Greg Bear
| image = Greg-bear-by-kyle-cassidy-L1008770 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Bear in 2016
| pseudonym =
| birth_name = Gregory Dale Bear
| birth_date = {{birth date|1951|8|20}}
| birth_place = [[San Diego]], California, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|11|19|1951|8|20}}<ref>{{cite web | url=https://gizmodo.com/obituary-greg-bear-sci-fi-author-1849806303 | title=Sci-fi Novelist Greg Bear Has Passed Away | date=November 20, 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.thegamer.com/halo-author-greg-bear-passes-away/ | title=Halo Author Greg Bear Passes Away Age 71 | date=November 20, 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gregbear.com/news.php#420|title=Greg Bear: News|quote=Greg passed away peacefully yesterday, surrounded by his loving family. [...] Greg Bear 8/20/1951–11/19/2022}}</ref>
| death_place =
| occupation = Novelist
| education = [[San Diego State University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
| genre = Science fiction, [[Speculative fiction]]
| notableworks = ''[[Blood Music (novel)|Blood Music]]''
| website = {{URL|gregbear.com}}
 }}

'''Gregory Dale Bear''' (August 20, 1951 – November 19, 2022) was an American science fiction writer.<ref>{{cite news |last=Holland |first=Steve |date=December 29, 2022 |title=Greg Bear obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/29/greg-bear-obituary |work=The Guardian |location=London |access-date=December 21, 2023}}</ref> His work covered themes of [[Interstellar_war|galactic conflict]] (''[[The Forge of God|Forge of God]]'' books), parallel universes (''[[The Way (Greg Bear)|The Way]]'' series), [[consciousness]] and [[Cultural_practice|cultural practices]] (''[[Queen of Angels (novel)|Queen of Angels]]''), and accelerated [[evolution]] (''[[Blood Music (novel)|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.<ref name=":0" /> 

He was one of the five co-founders of [[San Diego Comic-Con]].<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Crowther |first=Linnea |date=2022-11-21 |title=Greg Bear obituary: sci-fi author dies at 71 |url=https://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/greg-bear-1951-2022-sci-fi-author-and-comic-con-co-founder/#google_vignette |access-date=2024-11-18 |website=Legacy.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Early life==
Greg Bear was born in [[San Diego]], California.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Holland |first=Steve |date=2022-12-29 |title=Greg Bear obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/29/greg-bear-obituary |access-date=2024-11-18 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> 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; in later years, they were friends.{{cn|date=September 2022}}

==Career==
Bear is often classified as a [[hard science fiction]] author because of the level of scientific detail in his work.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=SFE: Bear, Greg |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bear_greg |access-date=2022-11-26 |website=[[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]]}}</ref> 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 Science Fiction|''Galaxy'']] and ''[[F&SF]]''.<ref name="locus" /> He sold his first story, "Destroyers", to ''Famous Science Fiction'' in 1967.<ref name="locus">"Greg Bear: Continuing the Dialog", [[Locus (magazine)|''Locus'']], February 2000, pp. 4, 76–78.</ref>

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 (novel)|Queen of Angels]]'', Bear examines crime, guilt, and punishment in society. He frames these questions around an examination of consciousness and awareness, including the [[Artificial intelligence|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 (novel)|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."{{efn|Bear has credited the inspiration for the idea to [[Frederick Kantor]]'s 1967 treatise "Information Mechanics" (see [[Digital physics]]).}} In ''Moving Mars'', that knowledge is used to remove Mars from the Solar System and transfer it to an orbit around a distant star.

''Blood Music'' was first published as a short story (1983) and then expanded to a novel (1985) features nanotechnology. 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''&mdash;which may contain the first description of a so-called "quantum logic computer"&mdash;and with ''Moving Mars''. The sequence also charts the historical development of [[self-awareness]] in [[artificial intelligence]]. 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 ''[[The Foundation Series|Foundation]]'' trilogy. Bear wrote the middle book named ''[[Foundation and Chaos]]''.

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 fiction|horror]]). Bear has described his ''Dead Lines'', which straddles the line between science fiction and fantasy, as a "high-tech [[ghost story]]".<ref>
{{cite web
 | url = http://www.fwomp.com/interview_gregbear.htm
 | title = interview
 | work = fwomp.com
 | publisher= Fiction Writers of the Monterey Peninsula
 | access-date=July 11, 2009
}}</ref> He has received many accolades, including five [[Nebula Award]]s and two [[Hugo Award]]s.<ref>
{{cite web
 | url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/authors.asp
 | title = Top SF/F Authors
 | work = WorldsWithoutEnd.com
 | access-date=July 11, 2009
}}</ref>

Bear cited [[Ray Bradbury]] as the most influential writer in his life. He met Bradbury in 1967 and had a lifelong correspondence. As a teenager, Bear attended Bradbury lectures and events in Southern California.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url = https://www.wired.com/2012/06/ray-bradbury-writer-memories/|title = Sci-Fi Scribes on Ray Bradbury: "Storyteller, Showman and Alchemist"|last = Adams|first = John Joseph|date = June 6, 2012|magazine = [[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]|access-date = October 20, 2015}}</ref>

He also served on the Board of Advisors for the [[Museum of Science Fiction]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/personal/2013/11/04/museum-of-science-fiction-indiegogo/3433947/ |title=Funds sought for science fiction museum lift-off |newspaper=USAToday.com |date=November 3, 2013 |access-date=September 7, 2014}}</ref> Bear was also one of the five co-founders of [[San Diego Comic-Con]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Robbins |first=Gary |date=2022-11-22 |title=Greg Bear, prize-winning sci-fi author and Comic-Con co-founder, dies at 71 |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/obituaries/story/2022-11-21/greg-bear-prize-winning-sci-author-and-comic-con-co-founder-dies-at-71 |access-date=2022-11-26 |website=San Diego Union-Tribune |language=en-US}}</ref>

==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>

==Awards and accolades==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Work  !! Year & Award!! Category!! Result !! Ref.
|-
| ''The Venging''||1976 [[Locus Award]]||Novelette||{{Nominated}}||<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfadb.com/Greg_Bear | title=Sfadb : Greg Bear Awards }}</ref>
|-
| ''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}}
|
|-
| rowspan="3" |''[[Queen of Angels (novel)|Queen of Angels]]''
|1991 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1991 [[John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel|John W. Campbell Memorial Award]]
|Science Fiction Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1991 Hugo Award
|Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''Bear's Fantasies''
|1993 World Fantasy Award]]
|Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''[[Anvil of Stars]]''
|1993 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| 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}}
|
|-
|1996 [[Premio Ignotus]]
|Foreign Novel
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|1998 Seiun Award
|Translated Long Work
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''Judgement Engine''
|1996 Locus Award
|Novelette
|{{Nominated}}||
|-
| rowspan="2" |''[[Legacy (1995 novel)|Legacy]]''
|1996 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| 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>
|-
| rowspan="1" |''New Legends''
|1996 Locus Award
|Anthology
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| 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>
|-
| rowspan="5" |''Slant (/)''
|1998 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|1998 [[John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel|John W. Campbell Memorial Award]]
|Science Fiction Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|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}}
|
|-
|1999 [[Endeavour Award]]
|     - 
|{{Won}}
|
|-
| 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}}
|
|-
|2001 Nebula Award
|Novel
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|2002 [[Premio Ignotus]]
|Foreign Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''The Way of All Ghosts''
|2000 Locus Award
|Novella
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''The Collected Stories of Greg Bear''
|2003 Locus Award
|Collection
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |''[[Vitals (novel)|Vitals]]''
|2003 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2003 [[John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel|John W. Campbell Memorial Award]]
|Science Fiction Novel
|{{CFinalist}}
|
|-
| 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}}
|
|-
|2004 [[Audie Awards]]
|Science Fiction
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|2004 Locus Award
|SF Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|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>
|-
| rowspan="1" |''[[Dead Lines]]''
|2005 Locus Award
|Fantasy Novel
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| rowspan="1" |''[[Quantico (novel)|Quantico]]''
|2006 Endeavour Award
|    -
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
| 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}}
|
|-
| 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}}
|
|-
|2012 Arthur C. Clarke Award
|      -
|{{Nominated}}
|
|-
|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}}
|
|-
| 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]].
== Bibliography ==
===Novels===

====Series====
;Darwin
* ''[[Darwin's Radio]]'' (1999)
* ''[[Darwin's Children]]'' (2003)

;The Forge of God
* ''[[The Forge of God]]'' (1987)
* ''[[Anvil of Stars]]'' (1992)

;Songs of Earth and Power
* ''[[The Infinity Concerto]]'' (1984)
* ''[[Serpent Mage (Greg Bear)|The Serpent Mage]]'' (1986)
* ''Songs of Earth and Power'' (1994 – combines ''The Infinity Concerto'' and ''The Serpent Mage'')

;Quantico
* ''[[Quantico (novel)|Quantico]]'' (2005)
* ''[[Mariposa (novel)|Mariposa]]'' (2009)

;Quantum Logic
Novels in internal chronology:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gregbear.com/blog/display.cfm?id=5617 |title=Greg Bear: Discussion Board |access-date=July 14, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110806105945/http://www.gregbear.com/blog/display.cfm?id=5617 |archive-date=August 6, 2011 }}</ref>
* ''[[Queen of Angels (novel)|Queen of Angels]]'' (1990)
* ''Slant'' (1997)
* ''Heads'' (1990)
* ''[[Moving Mars]]'' (1993)

;War dogs
* {{cite book <!--|author=Bear, Greg--> |title=[[War Dogs (novel)|War dogs]] |publisher=Orbit |year=2014 <!--|isbn=9780316072830-->}}
* ''Killing Titan'' (2015)
* ''Take Back the Sky'' (2016)

;[[The Way (Greg Bear)|The Way]]
* ''[[Eon (novel)|Eon]]'' (1985)
* ''[[Eternity (novel)|Eternity]]'' (1988)
* ''[[Legacy (1995 novel)|Legacy]]'' (1995)
* ''[[The Way (Greg Bear)#The Way of All Ghosts|The Way of All Ghosts]]'' (1999)

====Series (non-originating author)====
;[[The Foundation Series]]
* ''[[Foundation and Chaos]]'' (1998) (Second Foundation series: book 2)

;[[Man-Kzin Wars]]
* ''[[Man-Kzin Wars#The stories|The Man Who Would Be Kzin]]'' (with [[S.M. Stirling]]) (1991)

;[[Halo (series)|Halo]]
*[[Forerunner Saga]] (trilogy)
** ''Halo: Cryptum'' (2011)
** ''Halo: Primordium'' (2012)
** ''Halo: Silentium'' (2013)<ref>{{cite web |author=Upcoming4.me |url=http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/third-novel-in-forerunner-sage-by-greg-bear-halo-silentium-revealed |title=Third novel in the Forerunner Saga by Greg Bear, Halo : Silentium revealed |publisher=Upcoming4.me |access-date=July 18, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120720222848/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/third-novel-in-forerunner-sage-by-greg-bear-halo-silentium-revealed |archive-date=July 20, 2012 }}</ref>

;[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]
* ''[[Corona (novel)|Corona]]'' (1984)

;[[Star Wars]]
* ''[[Rogue Planet (novel)|Rogue Planet]]'' (2000)

;Foreworld Saga
*''[[The Mongoliad]]'' (2012–2013<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fastcompany.com/1652609/mongoliad-neal-stephenson-bear-galland-novel-app-social-media-writer-writing |title=The Mongoliad App: Neal Stephenson's Novel of the Future? |first=Kit |last=Eaton |date=May 26, 2010 |access-date=July 4, 2010 |work=[[Fast Company (magazine)|Fast Company]]}}</ref>)

====Non-series====
* ''[[Hegira (novel)|Hegira]]'' (1979)
* ''[[Psychlone (novel)|Psychlone]]'' (1979)
* ''Beyond Heaven's River'' (1980)
* ''[[Strength of Stones]]'' (1981)
* ''[[Blood Music (novel)|Blood Music]]'' (1985)
* ''Dinosaur Summer'' (1998)
* ''[[Dead Lines]]'' (2004)
* ''[[City at the End of Time]]'' ([[Victor Gollancz Ltd|Gollancz]] edition published July 17, 2008;<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/search-list-Greg%20Bear/~SW=Y~subject=cat3 |title=Invalid Site |access-date=August 28, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012152043/https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/search-list-Greg%20Bear/~SW=Y~subject=cat3 |archive-date=October 12, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Del Rey Books]] edition August 2008<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.randomhouse.com/delrey/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345448392 |title=Del Rey Online &#124; City at the End of Time by Greg Bear |access-date=August 28, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080804085817/http://www.randomhouse.com/delrey/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345448392 |archive-date=August 4, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>)
* ''[[Hull Zero Three]]'' (2010)
* ''The Unfinished Land'' (2021)

===Short fiction===
;Uncollected Short Fiction
* ''Destroyers'' (1967)
* ''Sun Planet'' (1977)
* ''If I Die Before I Wake'' (1980)
* ''Eucharist'' (1981)
* ''RAM Shift Phase 2'' (2005)
* ''Object 00922UU'' (2015) (with Erik Bear)
* ''The Machine Starts'' (2015)


;Collections
* ''[[The Wind from a Burning Woman]]'' (1983, vt The Venging 1992)
* ''Early Harvest'' (February 1988)
* ''[[Tangents (collection)|Tangents]]'' (1989)
* ''Bear's Fantasies'' (1992)
* ''The White Horse Child'' (1993)
* ''The Collected Stories of Greg Bear'' (2002)
* ''W3: Women in Deep Time'' (2003)
* ''Sleepside: The Collected Fantasies'' (November 2005)

===Anthologies edited===
* ''New Legends'' (1995, with [[Martin H. Greenberg]])
* ''[[Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson's Worlds]]'' (2014, with [[Gardner Dozois]])
* ''[[Nebula Awards Showcase 2015]]'' (2015)<ref>Briefly reviewed by [[Don Sakers]] in the April 2016 issue of ''[[Analog Science Fiction and Fact|Analog]]'', pp.105–108.</ref>

===Critical studies and reviews of Bear's work===
; ''War dogs''
* {{cite magazine |author=Sakers, Don |author-link=Don Sakers |date=May 2015 |title=The Reference Library |magazine=Analog Science Fiction and Fact |volume=135 |issue=5 |pages=104–107}}

== Explanatory notes ==
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==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Wikiquote|Greg Bear}}
* {{Official website}}
* [http://io9.com/5702896/greg-bear-swordfights-and-meets-aliens-in-episode-26-of-the-geeks-guide-to-the-galaxy 2010 Interview on the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast]
* [http://www.sffworld.com/interview/8p0.html Interview with Greg Bear], By Dag R., February 1, 2000, at {{URL|http://SFFWorld.com}}
* [http://www.thefutureandyou.libsyn.com/?search_string=bear&Submit=Search&search=1 All of Greg Bear's audio interviews on the podcast ''The Future And You''] (in which he describes his expectations of the future)
* {{isfdb name|id=Greg_Bear|name=Greg Bear}}
* {{IBList|type=author|id=458|name=Greg Bear}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070331110228/http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/eon/index.php The 20th challenge of the ''society of digital artists'', which made use of ''EON''.] In the ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20070507184500/http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/eon/about_eon.php about]'' part it includes the chapters 1, 2, 10 and 33.
* [http://www.worldswithoutend.com/author.asp?ID=72#books Complete list of sci-fi award wins and nominations by novel]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090616235718/http://blog.reddit.com/2009/06/video-of-scifireddit-interview-with.html Interview with questions submitted by Reddit.com users]
* [http://www.worldswithoutend.com/author.asp?ID=72 Greg Bear] on Worlds Without End
* {{imdb name|1095177}}
* {{discogs artist|Greg Bear}}

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