History Creator / GregBear

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: ''Songs of Earth and Power'' does this with numerous personages to good effect.

* LiteraryWorkOfMagic: In ''Songs of Earth and Power'', any sufficiently great work of art is magical.

* ThePowerOfRock: In ''Songs of Earth and Power'', any sufficiently great piece of music (or art in general) has inherent magical properties. In particular, there's a piece called the ''Infinity Concerto'' which legendarily transported a group of people to another world; later in the book, Mozart ([[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy yes, the real one]]) improvises another piece to transport them all back.

* LiteraryWorkOfMagic: In ''Songs of Earth and Power'', ''any'' sufficiently great work of art is magical.

Greg Bear is an American author of SpeculativeFiction. He is the son-in-law of SF writer Creator/PoulAnderson, and, like his father-in-law, he is best known for his hard science fiction, although he has also written {{Fantasy}} novels.

He most well-known work is the classic SF novel ''Literature/BloodMusic'', a ground-breaking story about nanotechnology, but his recent series, ''Literature/TheForerunnerSaga'', based on the ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' video game series has opened up a new audience for him. He was one of the authors who contributed to Creator/BruceSterling's ''Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology'', which was one of the defining works of {{Cyberpunk}}, but has not been particularly associated with cyberpunk beyond that. In fact, he is often mentioned as one of "the Killer B's", a group of writers that also includes Creator/DavidBrin and Creator/GregoryBenford, who are sometimes credited with revitalizing hard science fiction after the rise of cyberpunk. The Killer B's each wrote one volume of a prequel trilogy to Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/FoundationSeries''.

** Amped UpToEleven in ''Anvil of Stars'': [[spoiler:Noach weapons were used to create opposing poles of "quark matter" that annihilated ''anything'' between them, creating [=ESKs=] across the Killers' entire solar system.]]

* IThoughtItWasForbidden: In ''Songs of Earth And Power'', Michael is questioning one of the [[TheFairFolk Sidhe]], who tells him that none of them eat meat. He asks what they sacrifice to their god, then, and she comes out with [[CantArgueWithElves "Always forbidden, on occasion mandatory"]].

Greg Bear is an American author of SpeculativeFiction. He is the son-in-law of SF writer Creator/PoulAnderson, and, like his father-in-law, he is best known for his [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness hard science fiction]], although he has also written {{Fantasy}} novels.

He most well-known work is the classic SF novel ''Literature/BloodMusic'', a ground-breaking story about nanotechnology, but his recent series, ''Literature/TheForerunnerSaga'', based on the ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' video game series has opened up a new audience for him. He was one of the authors who contributed to Creator/BruceSterling's ''Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology'', which was one of the defining works of {{Cyberpunk}}, but has not been particularly associated with cyberpunk beyond that. In fact, he is often mentioned as one of "the Killer B's", a group of writers that also includes Creator/DavidBrin and Creator/GregoryBenford, who are sometimes credited with revitalizing hard science fiction after the rise of cyberpunk. The Killer B's each wrote one volume of a prequel trilogy to Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/{{Foundation}}'' series.

!! Works by Greg Bear with a page on this Wiki:

!! Other works by Greg Bear include:
* ''City at the End of Time''
* ''Corona'' (a Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries novel).
* ''Darwin's Radio'' and its sequel ''Darwin's Children''.
* ''The Forge of God'' and its sequel ''Anvil of Stars''.
* ''Dinosaur Summer''
* ''Hegira''
* ''Quantum Logic'' series
** ''Quantico''
** ''Mariposa''
** ''Queen of Angels''
** / (aka ''Slant'')
** ''Heads''
** ''Moving Mars''
* ''Rogue Planet'' (a Franchise/StarWarsLegends novel)
* ''Songs of Earth and Power'' (fantasy series)
** ''The Infinity Concerto''
** ''The Serpent Mage''
* ''Vitals''

* TimeCrash: ''City at the End of Time'' is all about a time crash [[spoiler:and an aeon-spanning GambitRoulette to ensure ''something'' will still exist afterwards]].

** And it gets ''weird'' in ''Blood Music'': [[spoiler:The Earth dissolves into a sphere of noocytes, which combined proceed to break reality to such an extent they then AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence, taking the Earth and humanity with them.]]

* LegoGenetics: A favorite of the author, popping up in ''Literature/TheWaySeries'' (The Geshels like different bodies), ''Literature/HullZeroThree'', (The ship can clone), and ''Literature/BloodMusic''.

* RealityWarper: Bear frequently explores the idea that the observer in fact shapes the observed reality. For example, towards the end of ''Literature/BloodMusic'' the entirety of North America is covered by a biological mass where each cell acts as an individual observer. The sheer concentration of this threatens to cause reality to break apart.

* ''Rogue Planet'' (a Franchise/StarWars ExpandedUniverse novel)

* TimeCrash: ''CityAtTheEndOfTime'' is all about a time crash [[spoiler:and an aeon-spanning GambitRoulette to ensure ''something'' will still exist afterwards]].

* EternalLove: In the closing moments of ''The City at The End of Time'', it is revealed that Sangmer and his love, who are forced to spend literally eternity apart in order to prevent the end of everything, meet again every time the current universe reaches it's end, only to part again when the next one is created.