Greg Bear

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  • Bibliography:
    56 Books (8 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1979
  • Latest Book:
    February 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Darwin

1 - Darwin's Radio (Aug-1999)
2 - Darwin's Children (Apr-2003)

The Forerunner Saga

1 - Halo: Cryptum (Jan-2011)
2 - Halo: Primordium (Jan-2012)
3 - Halo: Silentium (Mar-2013)

Forge of God

1 - The Forge of God (1987)
2 - Anvil of Stars (May-1992)

Quantico

1 - Quantico (Dec-2005)
2 - Mariposa (Nov-2009)

Queen of Angels

1 - Queen of Angels (1990)
2 - Moving Mars (1993)

Songs of Earth and Power

Infinity Concerto (Oct-1984)
The Serpent Mage (Nov-1986)

War Dogs

1 - War Dogs (Oct-2014)
2 - Killing Titan (Oct-2015)
3 - Take Back the Sky (Dec-2016)

The Way

1 - Eon (1985)
2 - Eternity (Oct-1988)
3 - Legacy (Jun-1995)

Multi-Author Series List

Halo

Halo: Cryptum (Jan-2011)
Halo: Primordium (Jan-2012)
Halo: Silentium (Mar-2013)

Second Foundation

2 - Foundation and Chaos (Mar-1998)

Star Trek

Corona (Apr-1984)

Star Trek: The Original Series

15 - Corona (Apr-1984)

Star Wars

Rogue Planet (May-2000)

Book List in Order: 56 titles

  • Psychlone

    • / Science Fiction
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    What kind of force can freeze a lynx solid in seconds, so fast that, once thawed, the cat can walk away in perfect health? What kind of force can murder almost all the inhabitants of a small New Mexico town in seconds? Larry Fowler is a scienti...

  • Hegira

    The planet Hegira is the universe’s melting pot. Hundreds of tribes in dozens of cities intermingle in the vast uncharted territory. The only thing holding the people together are the massive Obelisks, the chronicles of all the truths and false...

  • Beyond Heaven's River

    THE LAST VETERAN Kawashita had passed up the chance to die honorably, to go down with the mortally wounded carrier Hiryu. He was sure he had made the wrong choice when the alien spacecraft plucked him from the sea near Midway -- now he would certain...

  • Strength of Stones

    In a theocratic world far into the future, cities control their own movements and organization. Constantly moving, growing and decaying, taking care of every need their inhabitants might think of, the cities have decided that humans are no longer ...

  • Lost Souls

  • Hardfought

    A Nebula Awardâ€"winning novella by the author of Moving Mars and the Eon trilogy.   Humans have been engaged in a long war against an advanced alien race, the Senexi. But the possibility for peace may finally exist, thanks to a young girl who l...

  • Blood Music

    • / Science Fiction
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    THE SMALLEST OF ORGANISMS. THE GREATEST OF TRANSFORMATIONS. SO BEGINS TOMORROW... VERGIL ULAM was the genius behind "biologic": the restructuring of cells. Cells that can think. When Genetron canceled the project, Vergil smuggled his life's work ...

  • Corona

    Star Trek
    Star Trek: The Original Series - 15

    An awesome, sentient force of protostars--Corona--has taken control of a stranded team of Vulcan scientists. The Enterprise has come on a rescue mission, with a female reporter and a new computer that can override Kirk's command. Suddenly, the rescue...

  • Infinity Concerto

    Songs of Earth and Power

    THERE IS A SONG YOU DARE NOT SING ... a melody that you dare not play, a concerto that you dare not hear It is called a Song of Power. It is a gateway to another world -- agate that will lock behind you as you pass, barring you from the Earth fore...



  • The Wind from a Burning Woman

  • Eon

    • / Science Fiction
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    The Way - 1

    THE 21st CENTURY WAS ON THE BRINK of nuclear confrontation when the 300 km long stone flashed out of nothingness and into Earth orbit. NASA, NATO and the UN sent explorers to the asteroid's surface ... and discovered marvels and mysteries to drive...

  • The Serpent Mage

    Songs of Earth and Power

    Berkley Books, 1986. Mass market paperback original, 1st edition Sequel to "The Infinity Concerto" (1984). Fans of epic fantasy, magical realism, and well-crafted alternate realities will enjoy these novels....

  • The Forge of God

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    Forge of God - 1

    JUNE 26, 1996: One of Jupiter's moons disappears. SEPTEMBER 28,1996: A geologist near Death Valley finds a mysterious new cinder cone in a very well-mapped area. OCTOBER 1, 1996: The government of Australia announces the discovery of an enor...

  • Early Harvest

  • Eternity

    The Way - 2

    Beyond the most staggering human achievement. Beyond ambition. Beyond war. There waits...ETERNITY It is an age of pain and wonder: on Earth, struggling from the ravages of nuclear war; on Thistledown, the amazing asteroid-starship from the far fut...

  • Tangents

    A definitive overview of the work of a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author presents a selection of stories that includes the Hugo and Nebula-winning "Tangent" and "Blood Music," "Sisters," "Sleepside Story," and "Dead Run"...

  • Queen of Angels

    • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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    Queen of Angels - 1

    CRIME, PUNISHMENT--AND THE BORDERS OF THE MIND In a world of wonders, wealth, and "perfect" mental health, a famous poet commits gruesome murder...WHY? That crime, that question, leads a policewoman to a jungle of torture and forgotten gods; a ...

  • Heads

    Researchers at Ice Pit Station are conducting two experiments, during which they attempt to reach Absolute-Zero temperature and record the memories cryogenically frozen human heads, but a bizarre Earthborn cult will resort to anything to end the rese...

  • Anvil of Stars

    Forge of God - 2

    The Ship of the Law was made of the fragments of Earth's corpse, a world in itself, cruising massively close to the speed of light, hundreds of years from the dust and rubble of home... And aboard were 82 mortal exiles sworn to find and punish the...



  • Moving Mars

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    Queen of Angels - 2


    She is a daughter of one of Mars's oldest, most conservative Binding Multiples--the extended family syndicates that colonized the red planet. But Casseia Majumdar has a dream of an independent Mars, born in the student protests of 2171. During th...

  • Songs of Earth & Power: The Infinity Concerto and the Serpen

    The Song of Power opened the gateway to the Realm of the Sidhe, allowing young Michael Perrin to slip through. Now Michael faces years of captivity and deadly struggles for the future of the Realm and of Earth--leading finally to a terrible confronta...

  • New Legends

    "Hard" science fiction--SF that takes known scientific principles as its starting point--is, for many readers, the durable core of the field. But it is also accused, of being, as Greg Bear puts it, "a restrictive genre without a soul." Here, Nebula A...

  • Legacy

    The Way - 3

    The Way, a tunnel through space and time that houses a space station, Axis City, has become a place of war against the mysterious alien race called the Jarts, who advance farther into human territory every year. Reissue....

  • Slant

    In the sixth decade of the 21st century, the world has been transformed. Nanotechnology has been perfected, giving humans the ability to change their environment and themselves on the cellular level. And the study of the mind has brought about a r...

  • Dinosaur Summer

    Remember Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, in which an expedition led by Professor George Edward Challenger discovered an Amazonian plateau where dinosaurs still roamed? In Dinosaur Summer, Greg Bear assumes that Challenger's expedition really...

  • Foundation and Chaos

    Second Foundation - 2

    Isaac Asimov's renowned Foundation Trilogy pioneered many of the familiar themes of modern science fiction and shaped many of its best writers. With the permission and blessing of the Asimov estate, the epic saga left unfinished by the Grand Master h...

  • Country of the Mind

    In the Therapied world of the 21st century, love and sex take many forms. For Alice they relate to her work as a sex-vid star, but her intelligence makes her question her life. Her involvement in the death of a billionaire brings her into contact wit...

  • Darwin's Radio

    Darwin - 1

    Ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans wait like sleeping dragons to wake and infect again--or so molecular biologist Kaye Lang believes. And now it looks as if her controversial theory is in fact chilling reality. For Christopher Dicken, a "v...

  • Rogue Planet

    Star Wars

    MASTER AND APPRENTICE The Force is strong in twelve-year-old Anakin Skywalker ... so strong that the Jedi Council, despite misgivings, entrusted young Obi-Wan Kenobi with the mission of training him to become a Jedi Knight. Obi-Wan--like his slain...



  • The Venging

    This is the first published collection of short stories by one of the foremost voices in science fiction today. This significant volume contains many characters and situations that later evolved into their own novels. "Mandala" features technological...

  • Sleepside

    Greg Bear has been called the "best working writer of science fiction" by The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. He has been awarded two Hugo and four Nebula Awards, and holds the distinction of being one of two authors to win a Nebula in ever...

  • Vitals

    A harrowing thriller based on real-life discoveries in cell theory and the battle against aging and death by the bestselling author of Darwin’s Radio and War Dogs Scientist Hal Cousins is on the brink of success in his quest to determine the biolog...

  • The Collected Stories of Greg Bear

    Greg Bear is one of the greatest science fiction writers of the late twentieth century. He has a powerful voice, combining the intense rationality of science with the intensely passionate characters that can only be created by a writer who loves huma...

  • Women In Deep Time

    "Three stories with a common theme: the female psyche, multiplied and divided," says Greg Bear in his introduction to this Women in Deep Time. "There's probably something Jungian in common with all three. At any rate, throughout my writing career (an...

  • W3 Women in Deep Time

    Three short works including "Sisters," "Scattershot," and the Nebula Award-winning "Hardfought" introduce readers to the inhabitants of multiple universes and feature a theme of the female psyche, multiplied and divided. Original....

  • Darwin's Children

    Darwin - 2

    Eleven years have passed since the human race suddenly underwent a leap in evolution and a generation of genetically enhanced humans was born. The product of an ancient retrovirus that altered their DNA, the "virus babies" have reached adolescence in...

  • Dead Lines

    With his acclaimed novels Darwin's Children and Vitals, award-winning author Greg Bear turned intriguing speculation about human evolution and immortality into tales of unrelenting suspense. Now he ventures into decidedly more frightening territory i...

  • Quantico

    Quantico - 1

    From multiple-award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Greg Bear comes a near-future thriller that pits young FBI agents against a brilliant homegrown terrorist. It's the second decade of the twenty-first century, and terrorism has escalat...

  • City at the End of Time

    Multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winning author, Greg Bear is one of science fiction’s most accomplished writers. Bold scientific speculation, riveting plots, and a fierce humanism reflected in characters who dare to dream of better worlds distinguis...



  • Mariposa

    Quantico - 2

    In an America driven to near bankruptcy by crushing foreign debt and susceptible to outside forces, the Talos Corporation stands out as a major success story, training soldiers and security forces from around the world and providing logistics and tro...

  • Gateways

    An anthology of new, original stories by bestselling science fiction authors, inspired by science fiction great Frederik Pohl It isn't easy to get a group of bestselling SF authors to write new stories for an anthology, but that's what Elizabeth Ann...

  • Hull Zero Three

    A starship hurtles through the emptiness of space. Its destination - unknown. Its purpose - a mystery. Now, one man wakes up. Ripped from a dream of a new home - a new planet and the woman he was meant to love in his arms - he finds himself wet, n...

  • Halo: Cryptum

    The Forerunner Saga - 1
    Halo

    Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting is a young rebellious Forerunner. He is a Manipular, untried--yet to become part of the adult Forerunner society, where vast knowledge and duty waits. He comes from a family of Builders, the Forerunners’ highest an...

  • Halo: Primordium

    The Forerunner Saga - 2
    Halo

    A long time ago, I was a living, breathing human being. I went mad. I served my enemies. They became my only friends. Since then, I've traveled back and forth across this galaxy, and out to the spaces between galaxies--a greater reach than any hum...

  • Halo: Silentium

    The Forerunner Saga - 3
    Halo

    In the last years of the Forerunner empire, chaos rules. The Flood--a horrifying shape-changing parasite--has arrived in force, aided by unexpected allies. Internal strife within the ecumene has desperately weakened Forerunner defenses. Too little...

  • Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson's Worlds

    Poul Anderson (1926-2001) was one of the seminal figures of 20th century science fiction. Named a Grand Master by the SFWA in 1997, he produced an enormous body of standalone novels (Brain Wave, Tau Zero) and series fiction (Time Patrol, the Dominic ...

  • War Dogs

    War Dogs - 1

    AN EPIC INTERSTELLAR TALE OF WAR FROM A MASTER OF SCIENCE FICTION. They came in peace, bearing gifts. The Gurus were a highly advanced species who brought amazingly useful and sophisticated technology to the human race. There was, of course, a ...

  • Killing Titan

    War Dogs - 2

    A new planet. A new battle. Same war. After barely surviving his last tour on Mars, Master Sergeant Michael Venn finds himself back on earth in enforced isolation. Through a dangerous series of operations he returns to Mars to further his investig...

  • Nebula Awards Showcase 2015

    "The Nebula Awards Showcase" volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories of the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). The editor of t...



  • Beyond the Farthest Suns

    7 remarkable stories, newly revised for this collection, showcase the award-winning talents of one of the 21st century's finest writers of speculative fiction. Whether penning science fiction ("Moving Mars," "Queen of Angels," "War Dogs"), alternate ...

  • Far Thoughts and Pale Gods

    6 dazzling stories, freshly revised for this volume, plus new introductions, commentary, and reminiscences from the Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning author of "War Dogs," "Eternity," and "The Forge of God." Greg Bear is the author of more than 30 b...

  • Just Over the Horizon

    Greg Bear -- author of Queen of Angels, Eon, and Hull Zero Three, among many other hugely popular novels -- has an ability to transform challenging scientific concepts into gripping fiction that has won him numerous awards and an avid following. He h...

  • Take Back the Sky

    War Dogs - 3

    Marooned beneath the icy, waxy crust of Saturn's moon, Titan, Skyrine Michael Venn and his comrades face double danger from Earth and from the Antagonists, both intent on wiping out their growing awareness of what the helpful alien Gurus are really d...

  • Dead Lines: Hell Is on Speed Dial . . .

    From a New York Timesâ€"bestselling author: A new kind of phone awakens the dead in this technological horror novel “reminiscent of Koontz at his best” (Booklist).   Ever since his life was shattered by the kidnapping and murder of his young...

  • The Unfinished Land

    A sixteenth-century English apprentice fisherman is swept away into a world of adventure, mystery, wonder, and monsters in this historical fantasy.The year is 1588. Reynard Shotwood survived the destruction of the Spanish Armada’s failed invasion, ...

  • Bear's Fantasies: Six Stories in Old Paradigms

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Award-Winning Books by Greg Bear

Blood Music
1984 Hugo Award -- Novelette
1984 Nebula Award -- Novelette
Darwin's Radio
2001 Nebula Award -- Novel
Moving Mars
1995 Nebula Award -- Novel


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Greg Bear has published 56 books.

Greg Bear does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Unfinished Land, was published in February 2021.

The first book by Greg Bear, Psychlone, was published in January 1979.

Yes. Greg Bear has 8 series.
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