Greg Bear

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Title: Vitals: Description:
Blending fierce, fast plots with vivid characters and mind-bending ideas, Greg Bear has mastered a powerful alchemy of suspense, science, and action in his gripping thrillers. Vitals, begins with a harrowing descent to a netherworld at the very bottom of the sea - and explodes to the surface in sheer terror.

Title: Slant: Description:
This is the only Greg Bear novel I've come across that I actually understood. I quote the blurb: " In the 21st centry, the majority of the World's population are Therapied model citizens. But there seems to be a slow unwinding, becoming ever faster as old mental illnesses return to haunt people long cured. In differing ways, both Mary Chow, police woman, and Martin Burke, therapist, become involved in this strange event." And so forth. This isn't Greg Bear's usual techno-cryptic style, it's readable and intelligable.

Title: Eon: Description:
Above our planet hangs a hollow Stone, vast as the imagination of man. The inner dimensions are at odds with the outer: there are different chambers to be breached, some containing deserted cities; the furthest chamber contains the greatest mystery ever to confront the Stone's scientists. About the Author * #40 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written. * Blood Music won the Nebula and Hugo Awards in its original shorter form. * ‘One of the few SF writers capable of following where Olaf Stapledon led, beyond the limits of human ambition and geological time’ Locus * ‘Arthur C. Clarke has his most formidable rival yet’ The Times --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Title: Strength Of Stones: Description:
Man had made the Cities, but he had made them too well. For though they were perfect, their inhabitants were not. And so the Cities rejected their creators, threw them to the desert which lay outside their walls. But generations later not all of those in these nomad camps have lost their faith. About the Author SALES POINTS* ‘An excellent novel. It knocked me out!’ Harlan Ellison* ‘He explores the very edge of tomorrow and makes you feel what might happen the day after’ David Brin* ‘Arthur C. Clarke's most formidable rival yet’ The Times* Greg Bear is a two time Hugo and Nebula award winner --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Title: Psychlone (gollancz): Description:
It starts with a series of unconnected atrocities: A family, throats cut, obscenities scrawled on the sides of their yacht in blood . . The corpse of a man frozen to death, his body shattered into tiny fragments like pieces of gory glass ...A landscape scorched and blackened, as if by an angry god . . An entire village, wiped out in moments by some violent, elemental force ...And gradually people start to see the connections: a man-made maelstrom is loose in the world, and it's getting bigger, and it's coming closer ... About the Author * #40 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written. * Blood Music won the Nebula and Hugo Awards in its original shorter form. * ‘One of the few SF writers capable of following where Olaf Stapledon led, beyond the limits of human ambition and geological time’ Locus * ‘Arthur C. Clarke has his most formidable rival yet’ The Times

Title: Rogue Planet (star Wars): Description:
Three years after the events of "The Phantom Menace", young Anakin Skywalker and Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi encounter a mysterious world. Dispatched to the planet Zonama Sekot, source of the fastest ships in the galaxy, the pair are swept up in a swirl of deadly intrigue and betrayal.

Title: Eternity: Description:
From the other side of time... The epic sequel to EON.

Title: Blood Music: Description:
The award winning tale of the inevitable take-over of our society by a benign, intelligent scientific experiment gone awry. In the tradition of the greatest cyberpunk novels, Blood Music explores the imminent destruction of mankind and the fear of mass destruction by technological advancements. Blood Music 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 of nuclear fear. 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 quite how his actions will change the world. Author Greg Bears 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.

Title: Slant: Description:
In the sixth decade of the 21st century, Earth has been transformed. Nanotechnology has been perfected, giving humans the ability to change their environment and themselves down to the cellular level. And the study of the mind has brought a revolution in human psychotherapy and artificial intelligence. It's a sane and perfect world--almost.