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Writers/Authors << Back to Writers/Authors main page Greg Bear
BiographyBear was born in San Diego, California. From 1968 to 1973 he attended San Diego State University, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1975, he married Christina M. Nielson, but they divorced in 1981. He remarried in 1983, to Astrid Anderson, the daughter of science fiction author Poul Anderson. They have two children, Erik and Alexandra. Erik is currently training in Bartitsu Cane Fighting and German Longsword on Capitol Hill. They live outside of Seattle, Washington. CareerBear is often classified as a hard science fiction author, based on the scientific details in his work. Bear often addresses major questions in contemporary science and culture with fictional 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 those young civilizations which survive are those which do not attract the attention of the predators—by staying quiet. In Queen of Angels Bear examines crime, guilt and punishment in society, framing these questions around an examination of consciousness and awareness, including the emergent self-awareness of highly-advanced computers in communication with humans. In the two books Darwin's Radio and Darwin's Children he addresses the problem of overpopulation with a mutation the human genome making, basically a new series of humans. In the books the question of cultural acceptance of something brand new and unavoidable is also brought up. Other websites:
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Gregory Dale Bear (born August 20, 1951) is an American 
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