About the Author

Greg Bear sold his first short story, at the age of fifteen, to Robert Lowndes's Famous Science Fiction. Since then, he has written some twenty novels, including Eon, Slant, and Moving Mars. A winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, Bear is married to Astrid Anderson, and they, and their two children, live near Seattle, Washington.

Reviews

"It is the best end of the world we will see for a long time." --John Clute, New Scientist "Bear's best novel and is certainly one of the best long works of science fiction I have read this year." --San Diego Union "Bear takes a profound and unusual approach to hard SF." --Los Angeles Times