Artwork by Phil Smith, Museum Curator

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE FICTION
Washington, DC

For the past six months, I’ve been working with a team to bring the Museum of Science Fiction to Washington, DC: www.museumofsciencefiction.org

Over three dozen professionals are volunteering on the project: architects, accountants, artists, lawyers, curators, project managers, IT professionals, marketing and visitor experience people, video production and public relations people – just to name a few. Everyone is totally energized about our mission: To create a center of gravity where art and science are powered by imagination.

Until now, we’ve been flying under the radar. We’ve now publically announced our first campaign, and it will be very visible with a lot of national media coverage.

Our fundraising website went live on Monday: www.scificrowdfund.com

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THE MONGOLIAD

The Foreworld Saga (beginning with The Mongoliad: Book One, followed by The Mongoliad: Book Two) is based on the experimental, community-driven, enhanced online serial novel by Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, and friends, about a small band of warriors who stand between the Mongols and their conquest of 13th-century Europe.

Book Three is scheduled for release on February 26, 2013

• Order Your Copies Now!
• Read 'Five Ways to Die in a Medieval Battle' by Erik Bear and Joseph Brassey
• Visit The Mongoliad's Original Site

HALO: SILENTIUM

Book three in The Forerunner Saga was released on March 19, 2013. It follows Halo: Cryptum and Halo: Primordium which were inspired by the hit Xbox game.

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, too late, the legal rate of Juridicals is only now investigating possible crimes by the Master Builder and others. Evidence-gathering agents known collectively as Catalog have been dispatched to collect testimony from the Librarian and both Didacts: the Ur-Didact, treacherously abandoned in a Flood-infested system, and the Bornstellar Didact, who accompanies the Librarian as she preserves specimens against the dire possibility of Halo extermination.

Facing the consequences of a mythic tragedy, one of them must now commit the greatest atrocity of all time—to prevent an insane evil from dominating the entire universe.

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HULL ZERO THREE

"Greg Bear's voice is a resonant, clear chord of quality binding some of the best SF of the 20th Century to the short list of science-savvy, sophisticated, top-notch speculative fiction of the 21st. More than a grace note, Hull Zero Three is a compelling allegro in the growing symphony of Greg Bear's finest work." ~ Dan Simmons

"One of Bear's most thought-provoking and well-crafted novels to date." ~ Booklist

"Bear is one of our greatest science fiction writers." ~ Vernor Vinge

"A lean, mean, supercharged sense-of-wonder engine." ~ Alastair Reynolds

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YOU'VE READ THE HALO FORERUNNER SAGA -- NOW WHAT?

Now that you’ve finished HALO: CRYPTUM, HALO: PRIMORDIUM, and HALO: SILENTIUM, you might enjoy these other Greg Bear titles.

If you liked the exciting adventure aspects of the book, try HULL ZERO THREE.

If you liked the interstellar scope of the story, try FORGE OF GOD and its sequel ANVIL OF STARS, as well as MOVING MARS.

If you enjoy cosmic and thought-provoking fiction, try EON and CITY AT THE END OF TIME.

Intrigued by biological extrapolation? BLOOD MUSIC or DARWIN’S RADIO and its sequel DARWIN’S CHILDREN might be just the ticket.

Like thrillers? QUANTICO and its sequel MARIPOSA combine action and bio-terrorism in a contemporary setting. And they are the beginning of a future history that leads to QUEEN OF ANGELS its sequel SLANT.

There are many more Greg Bear books and stories to read, but these will get you started!