blood music
Born in San Diego, California, Greg Bear made his first sale at the age of fifteen to Robert Lowndes's Famous Science Fiction, and has subsequently established himself as one of the top professionals in the genre, and seems well on the way to achieving the sort of habitual-bestseller status enjoyed by Arthur C. Clarke. Indeed, he has much in common with Clarke—being, like him, a hard-science writer with a strong streak of the mystic, whose scientifically rigorous scenarios often lead his characters to mysterious transformations and apotheoses beyond the reach of science. He won a Nebula Award for this pyrotechnic novella "Hardfought," a Nebula and Hugo Award for his famous story "Blood Music," which was later expanded into a novel of the same title, and a subsequent Nebula and Hugo for his story "Tangents." His other books include the novels Hegira, Psychlone, Beyond Heaven's River, Strength of Stones, The Infinity Concerto, The Serpent Mage, Eon, Eternity, The Forge of God, Anvil of S