Электронная книга: Greg Bear «Vitals»
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Greg Bear
Infobox Writer
name = Gregory Dale Bear
caption = Greg Bear (2005)
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birthdate = Birth date and age|1951|8|20|mf=y
birthplace =
deathdate =
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occupation = Novelist
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website = http://www.gregbear.com/
Gregory Dale Bear (born
Biography
Bear was born in
Career
Bear is often classified as a
Bear often addresses major questions in contemporary science and culture with fictional solutions. For example, "
One of Bear's favorite themes is reality as a function of observers. In "Blood Music" reality becomes unstable as the number of observers — trillions of intelligent single-cell organisms — spirals higher and higher. Both "Anvil of Stars" — a sequel to "The Forge of God" — and "Moving Mars" postulate a physics based on information exchange between particles, capable of being altered at the "bit level". (Bear has credited the inspiration for this idea to Frederick Kantor's 1967 treatise, "Information Mechanics.") In "Moving Mars" this knowledge is used to remove Mars from the solar system and transfer it to an orbit around a distant star.
"Blood Music" (first published as a short story in 1983, and expanded to a novel in 1985) has also been credited as being the first account of nanotechnology in science fiction. More certainly, the short story is the first in science fiction to describe microscopic medical machines, and to treat DNA as a computational system, capable of being reprogrammed--that is, expanded and modified. 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 sequence also charts the historical development of self-awareness in AIs, with its continuing character, Jill, inspired in part by
More recent works such as the "Darwin's Radio"/"Darwin's Children" pair of novels, which deal with the impact of a strange
While most of Bear's work is
Bibliography
Collection of Short Stories
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* "Early Harvest" (February 1988)
* "Tangents" (1989)
* "The Venging" (1992)
* "Bear's Fantasies" (1992)
* "W3 Women in deep time" (2003)
* "Sleepside: The Collected Fantasies" (November 2005)
Darwin
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="The Way" Series=
* "Eon" (1985)
* "Eternity" (1988)
* "Legacy" (1995)
"The Forge of God" series
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"Second Foundation" Series
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"Songs of Earth and Power"
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* "The Serpent Mage" (1986)
* "Songs of Earth and Power" (1994 - combines "The Infinity Concerto" and "The Serpent Mage")
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* "Corona" (1984)
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*"The Man Who Would Be Kzin" (with
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"Queen of Angels"
A group of novels featuring a shared history and some common characters.
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* "Heads" (1990)
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* "/" (aka "Slant") (1997)
Non-series Novels
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* "Hegira" (1979)
* "Beyond Heaven's River" (1980)
* "The Strength of Stones" (1981)
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* "Sleepside Story" (1988)
* "New Legends" (1995)
* "Dinosaur Summer" (1998) (winner 1999
* "Country of the Mind" (June 1998)
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* "Dead Lines" (2004)
* "Quantico" (2005)
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Awards and accolades
* Best Novelette Nebula Award (1983) and Hugo Award (1984) for
* Best Novel Nebula Award in 1994 for
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* Best Novel Nebula Award in 2002 for
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References
External links
* [http://www.gregbear.com/ Greg Bear's Official Site]
* [http://www.epicsff.com/articles/05/04/dlrdarwinsradio/ Darwin's Radio Review]
* [http://www.sffworld.com/interview/8p0.html Interview] at [http://www.sffworld.com SFFWorld.com]
* [http://www.thefutureandyou.libsyn.com/?search_string=bear&Submit=Search&search=1 All of Greg Bear's audio interviews on the podcast "The Future And You"] (in which he describes his expectations of the future)
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* [http://www.goodreads.ca/gregbear/autopoiesis.html An excerpt from "Slant" (1997)]
* [http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/eon/index.php The 20th challenge of the "society of digital artists", which made use of "EON".] In the "about" part it includes the chapters 1, 2, 10 and 33 [http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/eon/about_eon.php] .
* [http://www.quanticothebook.com Quantico: Official Website]
* [http://mmbooks101.blogspot.com/search?q=Greg+BEar Interview with Greg Bear] Conducted by Murder and Mystery Books 101
Источник: Greg Bear
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Vitals — is a 2002 science fiction/techno thriller novel written by Greg Bear.It centres on Hal Cousins, a scientist who wishes to find a way to prevent death. He gets his funding from what he calls angels rich businessmen who are keen to live a thousand… … Wikipedia
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vitals — (n.) organs of the body essential to life, c.1600, from the adj. VITAL (Cf. vital) taken as a noun … Etymology dictionary
vitals — /vuyt lz/, n.pl. 1. those bodily organs that are essential to life, as the brain, heart, liver, lungs, and stomach. 2. the essential parts of something: the vitals of a democracy. [1600 10; trans. of L vitalia; see VITAL] * * * … Universalium
vitals — n Important information. Yo, can you give me the vitals on Jims party? 1980s … Historical dictionary of American slang