Greg Bear : Biography
                                

I was born in San Diego, California, on August 20th, 1951, to Wilma M. and  Dale
F. Bear. My father was  in the navy, and by  the time I was twelve  years old, I
had traveled with my  parents to Japan, the  Philippines and Alaska, as  well as
touring various parts of the United States. 

It was in Alaska, at age ten, that I completed my first short story. I had  been
writing for a year or so already. At age thirteen or fourteen I began submitting
stories to the magazines, and at fifteen  I sold my first short short to  Robert
Lowndes' FAMOUS SCIENCE FICTION. (It appeared when I was sixteen.) It took  five
years to sell my next story, but by the time I was twenty-three, I began selling
regularly.  My  first  novel,  finished  when  I  was  nineteen,  was completely
rewritten and sold to Berkley some thirteen years later; the first novel I  sold
(HEGIRA, Dell) appeared in 1979. By order of publication, my novels are  HEGIRA,
PSYCHLONE,  BEYOND HEAVEN'S  RIVER, STRENGTH  OF STONES,  THE INFINITY  CONCERTO
(Berkley, 1984),  BLOOD MUSIC  (Arbor), EON  (Bluejay) (1985),  THE FORGE OF GOD
(Tor, 1986), ETERNITY (Warner, 1988),  QUEEN OF ANGELS (Warner, 1990).  ANVIL OF
STARS (Warner, 1992), MOVING MARS (Tor, October 1993), SONGS OF EARTH AND  POWER
(Tor,  1994), LEGACY  (Tor, 1995),  SLANT (Tor,  May 1997)  and DINOSAUR  SUMMER
(Warner, February 1998), and FOUNDATION AND CHAOS (Harper Prism, February 1998),
DARWIN'S RADIO (Del Rey/HarperCollins UK, 1999), ROGUE PLANET (Del Rey/Lucasfilm
2000), VITALS  (Del Rey/Harper  Collins UK,  2002), and  DARWIN'S CHILDREN  (Del
Rey/Harper Collins UK, 2003). 

In 1983, Arkham House published my  first collection of short fiction, THE  WIND
FROM A  BURNING WOMAN.  A second  collection, TANGENTS,  was published by Warner
Books in August of 1989.