From Clarion West: We’re pleased to announce that donors Astrid Bear and Jeff and Bonney Lemkin are once again offering a $2,500 matching challenge to help fund the 2026 Greg Bear Memorial Instructorship — and we’re asking the community to take up the challenge to raise the remaining $2,500 to fully support the fund this year.
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Beyond classics like 1984 and The Handmaid’s Tale, these speculative stories consider systems of power.
[Article from The Portalist]
Astrid Bear has extra copies of many of Greg Bear's titles (including hardcovers and foreign language) available for purchase. To inquire as to availability and price, please send an email to gregbearsite@gmail.com and your messages will be forwarded to her.
"If you’ve ever rolled your eyes at a science fiction novel’s description of light-speed travel or told a friend that the Death Star wouldn’t really have made a sound when it blew up in space, then you’ll appreciate these hard science fiction novels. The term “hard science fiction” doesn’t mean sci-fi that’s tough to read, of course; it means sci-fi that really values scientific accuracy."
[Continue reading at The Portalist]We've added a new section to the site called
Readthrough and Critiques.
Greg and Astrid's daughter Chloe and her partner have begun a chronological read-through of all of Greg's work at
The Great Bear.
Greg was interviewed in 2014 on the Singularity Podcast, and we'd neglected to post the link at the time, so here it is!
SciFi Master Greg Bear: The Singularity is the Secular Apotheosis
Selections from The Portalist:
The 1980s saw an explosion of the SF world with an influx of new writers and publishers and a huge increase in readers and fans.
The new technological advances of the 1980s inspired authors to explore the possibilities of machines. Personal computers and video games become commonplace and this is reflected in the SF books of the decade.
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