Greg Bear(1951-2022)
- Writer
Greg was born in San Diego on August 20th, 1951, to Wilma M. and Dale
F. Bear. He sold his first short story at the age of fifteen to the
magazine Famous Science Fiction and his first novel, Hegira, appeared
in 1979. One of Bear's most famous stories is "Blood Music", which won
the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award. Another short story, "Dead Run",
was adapted by Alan Brennert for the second Twilight Zone television
show. He worked as a freelance journalist at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena, where he covered all the Voyager planetary
encounters for the San Diego Union, as a film commentator for the Los
Angeles Times, as a book reviewer for the San Diego Union Book Review
supplement, as a bookseller and as lecturer for the San Diego City
Schools. He was a founding member of ASFA, the Association of Science
Fiction Artists. In the 1980s, Bear served on the Citizens Advisory
Council on National Space Policy and as science and speculations
advisor for the pilot episode of the Amblin/Universal TV production
_Earth 2 (1994) (TV)_. Married to Astrid Anderson (daughter of Poul Anderson) in 1983. They
have a son, Erik (born September 1986) and a daughter, Alexandra (born
January 1990). His science fiction often draws on his knowledge of
biology and anthropology.