A New York Times Notable Book: "Hard science and human interest intersect ingeniously in this prequel to [Greg] Bear's Eon and Eternity " ( Publishers Weekly ).New York Times –Bestselling AuthorHugo and Nebula Award–Winning Author

The final novel of the Forerunner Saga trilogy by science fiction legend Greg Bear—set in the Halo universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series!One hundred thousand years ago. Chaos rules the final days of the Forerunner empire. The Flood—a horrifying, shape-changing, and unstoppable parasite—has arrived in force, aided by unexpected allies, and internal strife has desperately weakened Forerunner defenses. Facing the imminent collapse of t...

Classic fantasy stories from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author, "one of our very best, and most innovate, speculative writers" ( New York Daily News ).Collecting nine stories in old paradigms, Sleepside features Greg Bear's outstanding fantasy writing: "Webster," "The White Horse Child," "Richie by the Sea," "Sleepside Story," "Dead Run," "The Visitation," "Through Road No Whither," "The Way of All Ghosts,"...

This saga of parallel universes from a Hugo and Nebula Award – winning author "may be the best constructed hard SF epic yet" ( The Washington Post).One of the world's preeminent New York Times *–*bestselling authors of hard science fiction mesmerizes readers with a mind-expanding, three-volume masterwork about the creation of an alternate universe that breaks down all barriers of time and space, a...

A doomsday masterpiece from the New York Times –bestselling, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Eon and Hull Zero Three .On July 26, Arthur Gordon learns that Europa, the sixth moon of Jupiter, has disappeared. Not hiding, not turned black, but gone.On September 28th, Edward Shaw finds an error in the geological records o...

Same war. Different enemy.First it was Mars, then Titan - the battlefield changed but the war remained the same. Until now.Master Sergeant Michael Venn and his soldiers now know the truth about what the supposedly benevolent Gurus are really doing in our solar system. A truth both Earth and the alien Antagonists are intent on wiping out.The soldiers must forget their training, forget what they know, and journey to Planet X - infamous home of the Ant...

The Gurus came in peace, bearing gifts.They were a highly advanced, interstellar species who brought amazingly useful and sophisticated technology to the human race. There was, of course, a catch. The Gurus warned of a far more malevolent life form, beings who have hounded the Gurus from sun to sun, planet to planet, across the cosmos. Pundits have taken to calling them the Antagonists - or Antags - and they have already established a beachhead on Mars. In exchange for all they've ...

A genetic engineering breakthrough may portend the destruction of humanity in this cyberpunk novel by the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author.This Hugo and Nebula Award finalist follows present-day events in which the fears concerning the nuclear annihilation of the world subsided after the Cold War and the fear of chemical warfare spilled over into the empty void it left behind. An amazing breakthrough in genetic engineering made by Vergil Ulam is considered too ...

A Japanese WWII soldier finds himself on an alien world in this novel from the New York Times –bestselling "master of the grand-scale SF novel" ( Booklist ).Hugo and Nebula Award–Winning AuthorYoshio Kawashita is a great warrior until aliens whisk him away during World War II. They put him on a desolate planet far from his home, where he is destined to re...

Fourteen stories and a rare screenplay from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author deliver a "solid introduction to the oeuvre of a classic writer" ( The New York Times Book Review ).Greg Bear—author of Queen of Angels, Eon, and Hull Zero Three, among many other hugely popular novels—has an ability to transform challenging scientific concepts into gripping fiction that has won him numerous awar...

A galaxy-altering scientific breakthrough on Mars inspires treachery and revolution in this Nebula Award–winning science fiction epic.The child of one of the oldest, most revered family-corporate units on colonized Mars, Casseia Majumdar has spent her entire life in the tunnels that run beneath the surface of her homeworld. As a young college student in 2171, the fifty-third year of the Martian settlement, she experiences a profound political awakening, and her emb...

A space-traveling Jesuit priest confronts a moral but godless alien race in this Hugo Award–winning novel by the author of the Cities in Flight saga.Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man, a Jesuit priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He doesn't feel any genuine conflicts in his belief system—until he is sent to Lithia.The reptilian inhabitants of this distant world appear to be admirable in every way. Untroubled by gree...