About Greg Bear
Greg Bear (1951-2022) was the author of THE UNFINISHED LAND (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021), KILLING TITAN (Orbit 2015), HULL ZERO THREE (Orbit 2010), CITY AT THE END OF TIME (Del Rey 2009), MARIPOSA (Perseus paperback November 2010), HALO: CRYPTUM, HALO: PRIMORDIUM, and HALO: SILENTIUM (Tor, 2011, 2012, and 2013). He was the father of two young writers, Chloe and Alexandra, and was married to Astrid Anderson Bear, who has written for SAN DIEGO NOIR.
Greg Bear published more than thirty
novels and five story collections, earning him five
Nebulas, two Hugos, two Endeavours, and the
Galaxy Award (China). He was one of the original
founders of San Diego Comic-Con.
News
The Greg Bear Birthday Bundle
08/20/2026 - 09/09/2026
In honor of what would have been Greg's 75th birthday on August 20, Open Road Media has partnered with Humble Bundle for a special sale on 3, 6, or 27 titles! A percentage of income generated will benefit the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFFWA), an organization that Greg was a proud member of and that he served as president of.
[Purchase through HumbleBundle.com]8 Thought-Provoking SFF Books That Explore Political Control
03/18/2026
Beyond classics like 1984 and The Handmaid’s Tale, these speculative stories consider systems of power.
[Article from The Portalist]
Copies Available for Purchase
07/01/2025
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.
17 Brilliant Hard Science Fiction Novels
04/17/2025
"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]New Articles and Critiques
03/18/2025
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 ApotheosisThe Best Science Fiction of the 1980s
03/17/2025
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.
[Continue reading at The Portalist...]More News...
