TY - ABST T1 - Mariposa Y1 - 2009 A1 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Primarily a thriller but with dystopian elements describing a near future U.S. in economic decline.

PB - Vanguard Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darwin’s Children Y1 - 2003 A1 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to Darwin’s Radio. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 1999, which concerned the discovery of the DNA that brought about the disease that resulted in the children. The volume includes an “Afterword” (419), “A Short Biological Primer” (422-23) and a “Short Glossary of Scientific Terms” (423-27). The advanced children described in that novel have matured and ae threatened by those who resent their powers. As a result, they are interned in special schools and targeted by bounty hunters as part of a plan to eliminate them. The volume includes “Caveats” (375-76), a “Short Glossary of Scientific Terms” (377-83), and “A Brief Reading List” (385-87).

PB - Del Rey/Ballantine CY - New York SN - 978-0345448361 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - / [Slant] Y1 - 1997 A1 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is something of a sequel to 1990 Bear in that it includes some of the same characters and issues. 

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Washington Transformed: The Radical Future of the Northwest" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

High tech eutopian projection but with clear indications of problems.

JF - Paradoxa VL - 2.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Coming of Age in Karhide By Sov Thade Tage em Ereb, of Rer, in Karhide, on Gethen" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Short sequel to 1969 Le Guin. The rites of passage of and emotional responses to going into kemmer (taking on sexual characteristics) for the first time.

JF - New Legends PB - Legend Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. without subtitle after the first Karhide (New York: Tor, 1995), 90-105; and with the subtitle in her The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 1-22. U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2002), 1-22; and in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 990-1008 with a “Note on the Text” (1084).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Moving Mars Y1 - 1993 A1 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mars had been colonized from Earth, but the two planets were growing apart and war was coming. Mars was then moved to another sun and over time Mars became more inhabitable and evolved a decent, limited government.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Queen of Angels Y1 - 1990 A1 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is a complex exploration of human self-awareness, the growing knowledge of how the mind works, artificial intelligence, the future of psychotherapy, and nanotechnology with both positive and negative elements. See also 1997 Bear.

PB - Warner Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1990. Rpt. London: VGSF, 1991 and London: Legend, 1991.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sisters" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of genetic engineering. The point-of-view character is a teenager who was not engineered by her parents and is upset to be different, but those of her age group who had been engineered start dying from an engineering error.

JF - Tangents PB - Warner Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Popular Library, 1990), 199-238; Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1992. Short Story Paperback #43; and in Just Over the Horizon: The Complete Short Fiction of Greg Bear Volume One (New York: Open Media, 2016), 1-36.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Strength of Stones Y1 - 1981 A1 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of religious conflict and overprotective cities.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

The section entitled “Mandala” appeared in different form in New Dimensions Number 8. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Harper & Row, 1978), 149-96. The section entitled “Resurrection” appeared as “Strength of Stones, Flesh of Brass.” Rigel, no. 1 (Summer 1981): 5-18, 53-62, 64-66. 

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