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I was surprised to read in the article that in The Forge of God Greg Bear makes use of the Gaia theory. From my recollection of the book Gaia has no relevance whatsoever. I read a book in the Eon/Eternity (Legacy?)series where the life on the planet Lamarckia is somewhat different to Earth's - but I'm not convinced either that the Gaia hypothesis is being used - just that evolution took a different course which on the face of it was non-Darwinian. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.159.60.137 ( talk • contribs) attribute comment
I removed the complaint that bacteria developing conscioussness was scientifically dubious, because we don't possess a scientific theory of consciousness. Instead I point out that the math in Eon is pretty bogus. Gene Ward Smith 22:16, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Commenting on which parts of books are bogus is Original Research. And personal opinion. go find a forum for that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.246.145.33 ( talk) 05:08, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
Have fun! ~Kylu ( u| t) 04:01, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
I've read in a book, and I'm fairly sure that it's either Neil Stephenson, Greg Bear or Dan Simmons, a Native American legend involving vagina dentatas belonging to three "spider women". I wanted to add this to the Vagina Dentata article. Does anyone know if this comes from Bear? Tomandlu ( talk) 09:31, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm a bit confused by the following quote:
"In later works, beginning with Queen of Angels and continuing with its sequel, Slant, Bear gives a detailed description of a near-future nanotechnological society. This historical sequence continues with Heads — which may contain the first description of a so-called "quantum logic computer" — and with Moving Mars"
This makes it sound as though the order the books were written in is Queen of Angels, Slant, Heads, and then Moving Mars. But the list of books further down has the order as Queen of Angels, Heads, Moving Mars, and then Slant. I haven't read any of these books myself, so I'm not sure if one of these is incorrect, or if it's just a case of awkward wording in the quote above. Jcb9 ( talk) 07:15, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Tor have annouced that he is to write; 3 Halo Novels based in the Forerunner era. Should we add it? SPARTAN-J024 (Talk) 16:19, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
Anybody know if Astrid and Greg Bear are planning a lawsuit against James Cameron's movie "Avatar" for ripping off Astrid's father's (Poul Anderson) short sci fi story "Call Me Joe"? The statute of limitations on civil copyright infringement cases is three years, as I recall. Thanks. 69.104.54.170 ( talk) 05:56, 19 June 2010 (UTC)Sgt. Rock
I think it's clear that Quantico and Mariposa should be included under the heading of Series: Quantico (Queen of Angels prequels), since Mariposa, by including "Mind Design, Inc.", a depiction of Mary Choy at the age of 5 years old, and relating how President Raphkind comes to power, clearly indicates that the events in those books precede those in the "Queen of Angels" series.
So I'm adding "(Queen of Angels prequels)" to that heading...
bonze blayk 10:57, 19 June 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bonzesaunders ( talk • contribs)
Article should include the fact that the Novella Hardfought, contained in 'The Wind from the Burning Woman' won a the 1984 Nebula
Maccheek ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:19, 30 March 2011 (UTC).
Article had this section:
Really? No citation for this supposed praise was given, nothing in the linked articles about the books. And having read the books in question, the science is ludicrous if you know anything about evolution. It's basically Intelligent Design -- that our evolution is following a program in our DNA. It's just the standard superman mutant story, like Van Vogt's Slan. So I think that Nature would "praise" these books is unlikely. If I'm wrong, supply the cite and restore it. 202.81.243.211 ( talk) 11:22, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section. Cite templates will be used for books and articles. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. Links to potentially unreliable digitised copies may be removed. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 ( talk) 11:14, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
Private advice from Astrid is that he died peacefully with family beside him late today (Seattle time). Need a reliable source for the article. There will be obituaries and tributes over the next few days; worth mining for information. -- Pete ( talk) 06:19, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
This whole section is just copied and pasted from the introduction to "The Collected Stories of Greg Bear" published in 2003. 14.200.159.34 ( talk) 02:30, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
Greg Bear's last name is transcribed into Russian and Ukrainian as if it's pronounced like "beer" and not "bear". What is the correct pronunciation of his last name? Hellerick ( talk) 04:54, 16 February 2023 (UTC)