Author: Greg Bear

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  • IN: Foundation and Chaos (1998) Novel, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The centuries recede, and the legend of Hari Seldon grows: the brilliant man, wise man, sad man who charted the course of the human future in the old Empire. But revisionist views prosper, and cannot always be easily dismissed. To understand Seldon, we are sometimes tempted to refer to apocrypha, myths, even fairy tales from those distant times. We are frustrated by the contradictions of incomplete documents and what amount to hagiographies. This we know without reference to the revisionists: that Seldon was brilliant, Seldon was key. But Seldon was neither saint nor divinely inspired prophet, and of course, he did not act alone. The most pervasive myths involve…
    FROM: Encyclopedia Galactica, 117th Edition, 1054 F.E., (1998), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Moving Mars (1993) Novel, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A day on Mars is a little longer than a day on Earth: 24 hours and 40 minutes. A year on Mars is less than two Earth years: 686 Earth days, or 668 Martian days. Mars is 6,787 kilometers in diameter, compared to Earth’s 12,756 kilometers. Its gravitational acceleration is 3.71 meters per second squared, or just over one-third of Earth’s. The atmospheric pressure at the surface of Mars averages 5.6 millibars, about one-half of one percent of Earth’s. The atmosphere is largely composed of carbon dioxide. Temperatures at the “datum” or reference surface level (there is no “sea level,” as there are presently no seas) vary from -130° to +27° Celsius. An unprotected human on the surface of Mars would very likely freeze within minutes, but first would die of exposure to the near-vacuum. If this unfortunate human survived freezing and low pressure, and found a supply of oxygen to breathe, she would still be endangered by high levels of radiation from the sun and elsewhere. After Earth, Mars is the most hospitable planet in the Solar System.
    FROM: NULL, (1993), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Darwin's Children (2002) Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Some legal experts say that even legitimate newspaper sites could be hacked or shut down without warning should approval be granted, and the granting of such approval is likely in itself to be kept secret.
    FROM: Seattle Times-PI Online, (None), Article, US
• Anonymous (3)
  • IN: Darwin's Children (2002) Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They want to kill our kids. Lord help us all.
    FROM: Anonymous Postings, ALT.NEWCHILD.FAM, (2002), [NA], NULL
• Owen Withey (1)
  • IN: Darwin's Children (2002) Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: God had nothing to do with making these children. I don’t care what you think about creationism or evolution, we’re on our own now.
    FROM: Creation Science News, (None), [NA], US