Bøger af Greg Bear

A Japanese WWII soldier finds himself on an alien world in this novel from the bestselling ';master of the grand-scale SF novel' (Booklist). Yoshio Kawashita is a great warrior until aliens whisk him away during World War II. They put him on a desolate planet far from his home, where he is destined to remain forever, leaving him alone in his new hell. Then Anna Nestor appears. This empress does not see planets as homes for their inhabitants; she sees exploitable real estate. Anna Nestor views Kawashita as a sideshow attraction until they fall in love. But the two lovebirds cannot be free until they find out who kidnapped Kawashita and why.

Classic fantasy stories from the Hugo and Nebula Awardwinning author, ';one of our very best, and most innovate, speculative writers' (New York Daily News). Collecting six stories in old paradigms, Sleepside features Greg Bear's outstanding fantasy writing: ';Webster,' ';The White Horse Child,' ';Sleepside Story,' ';Dead Run,' ';Through Road No Whither,' and the Nebula Award finalist ';Petra.' This edition also includes the special introduction by the author: ';On Losing the Taint of Being a Cannibal.

The ';provocative and entertaining follow-up' to The Forge of God: Exiled from their planet, humans unite with one alien race in the fight against another (Publishers Weekly). The Ship of the Law travels the infinite enormity of space, carrying eighty-two young people: fighters, strategists, scientistsand children. After one alien culture destroyed their home, another offered the opportunity for revenge in the form of a starship built from fragments of the Earth's corpse, a ship they now use to scour the universe in search of their enemy. Working with sophisticated nonhuman technologies that need new thinking to comprehend them, they're cut off forever from the people they left behind. Denied information, they live within a complex system that is both obedient and beyond their control. They're frightened. And they're waging war against entities whose technologies are unimaginably advanced and vast, and whose psychology is ultimately, unknowably alien. In Anvil of Stars, the multimillion-selling, Nebula Awardwinning author of Eon and other science fiction masterpieces ';fashions an action-packed and often thrilling plot; by using each of the well-depicted alien races to mirror human behavior, he defines what it means to be Homo sapiens. ... A gripping story' (Publishers Weekly).

Nebula Award Finalist: A genetic engineering breakthrough may portend the destruction of humanity in this cyberpunk novel by the author of The Forge of God. This Hugo and Nebula Award finalist follows present-day events in which the fears concerning the nuclear annihilation of the world subsided after the Cold War and the fear of chemical warfare spilled over into the empty void it left behind. An amazing breakthrough in genetic engineering made by Vergil Ulam is considered too dangerous for further research, but rather than destroy his work, he injects himself with his creation and walks out of his lab, unaware of just how his actions will change the world. Author Greg Bear's treatment of the traditional tale of scientific hubris is both suspenseful and a compelling portrait of a new intelligence emerging amongst us, irrevocably changing our world.

';A minor classic. A small book but with big characters ... and great ideas' from the Hugo and Nebula Awardwinning author of Dinosaur Summer (SF Reviews). 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 falsehoods each tribe has brought to Hegira. Young Bar Woten is in search of knowledge and he knows the key to the truth about his homeland is contained in the writings of the Obelisks. With his fellow companions, Bar Woten must travel through Hegira's exotic cities to discover the lies within the words of thousands.

The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem has been blown to bits by extremists, and, in retaliation, thousands have died in another major attack on the United States. Now the FBI has been dispatched to deal with a new menace. A plague targeted to ethnic groups--Jews or Muslims or both--has the potential to wipe out entire populations. But the FBI itself is under political assault. Theres a good chance agents William Griffin, Fouad Al-Husam, and Jane Rowland will be part of the last class at Quantico. As the young agents hunt a brilliant homegrown terrorist, they join forces with veteran bio-terror expert Rebecca Rose. But the plot they uncover--and the man they chase--prove to be far more complex than anyone expects.

Greg Bear''s The Forge of God described the destruction of Earth itself by self-replicating robots, Von Neumann machines designed to use the planet''s mass to create more robotic creatures and spread throughout the Galaxy. In Anvil of Stars, only a few humans have survived, aided by a mysterious alien race known only as "The Benefactors", who arrived at Earth too late.Now the small group of human survivors is determined to track down the criminal race who launched the planet killers. Humanity is given a starship by The Benefactors, and driven only by revenge they set out to find the unknown beings who are responsible for the destruction of Earth, and many other worlds.

The Forge of God by Greg BearOn September 28th, a geologist working in Death valley finds a mysterious new cinder cone in very well-mapped area.On October 1st, the government of Australia announces the discovery of an enormous granite mountain. Like the cinder cone, it wasn't there six months ago....Something is happening to Planet Earth, and the truth is too terrifying to consider....

NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Greg Bear returns with a new pulse-pounding, adrenaline-fueled military space adventure set on Mars.

Trapped on a mysterious spaceship, the only way to escape is to survive. A thrilling novel from the Hugo and Nebula award-winning Greg Bear.

Sequel to the classic space opera EON - a groundbreaking SF classic.

One of the great SF epics of the last thirty years.

Greg Bear returns triumphantly to the universe of his bestsellers, EON and ETERNITY, with his greatest novel yet.

A major science fiction author continues one of the most famous SF stories of all time.

The Force is strong in Anakin so strong that the Jedi Council, despite misgivings, entrusted the young Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi with the mission of training him to become a Jedi Knight. Obi-Wan - like his slain Master, Qui-Gon - believes Anakin may be the chosen one, the Jedi destined to bring balance to the Force.