DISQUS

Chris · 8 months ago

Thank you for some truly wonderful reads, Greg. Do you buy Ray Kurzweil's view of the future? Wholesale? In part?

Oscar · 8 months ago

Could you PLEASE kick the crap out of Orson Scott Card ?

Anon · 8 months ago

The EON series were epic. Absolutely epic.

John Davis · 8 months ago

Wow that should be pretty interesting!

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not_john_belushi · 8 months ago

How did you get into writing, which book of yours do you consider your favorite, and which book would you recommend for newcomers to your work?

Oh, and do you read reddit?

not_john_belushi · 8 months ago

D'oh!...just read where to submit them.

Max · 8 months ago

What got you started writing fiction? How old were you when you decided, or knew, it was going to be a career for you?

kn0thing · 8 months ago

Please submit and vote on questions here: http://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/85emu/he...

Michael · 8 months ago

Are there any plans for you to return to doing some kind of fantasy novel? Songs of Earth and Power was incredible, and there are few books like it. I know you have mentioned that you had no plans to return to that universe, but perhaps something similar in tone?

mattt · 8 months ago

I judge a sf book by the impact it has. I find myself contemplating thr ideas in Darwin's Radio often, years after reading it. Bravo.
For Darwin's Radio, what alternate endings did you consider?
Would you let Hollywood mess with it?

Sue · 8 months ago

Love you work! I wonder if you have any comments and opinions about the future SciFi fiction which is published collaboratively, online, by amateurs?

Sid · 8 months ago

Love your books. As long as I live I'll never forget Songs of Earth And Power. What led you to Mahler?

squidfartz · 8 months ago

I think Blood Music is excellent -has it ever been optioned as a film or television episode plot?

Also, what authors challenge and inspire you? Where would you suggest readers go to find the work that leaves you in awe?

Is there anything creative that you would passionately like to do, but don't think you'll accomplish within your lifetime? Write an opera? Build a house? Start a religion?

Please keep up the good work.

Gusfoo · 8 months ago

Eon was (is!) one of the most inspirational books I've read in terms of humanizing science and scientists (as well as being a cracking read). My question is - would you be happy to see Eon turned in to a movie bearing in mind the dumbing-down done to Carl Sagan's Elanor Arroway character and knowing that Patricia Vasquez would be similarly treated? (I rush to add that it would undoubtedly be a superb movie - I'm my question is about Mr Bear's view of his creation being transformed in this way)

Anonymous Coward · 8 months ago

Why the mustache?

woodrail · 8 months ago

Would you be inclined to get back into talking about alternate realities?

As you well know it's a topic that just REEKS of awesomeness - everybody knows it - but no author ever really quite seems to be able to get at the MEAT of it. You gave it a good go (Infinity Concerto- Eon, Scattershot..) - you made me shiver, you were poking at it for sure. But... well, NOBODY has ever really gotten a proper grip on it.

You need to give it another try. Nobody since Zelazney (or maybe L'Engle) has come closer than you. A big treasurebox of antimatter is just waiting there for the right author, I can feel it. And not just a "the beast than came from the really amazing hole in space and then we had a fight" gimmick, but a really centrally important mindfreaking WIERD THING.

Have you read Iain Banks? Some of his stuff has that smell on it. It's a smell like, well, Lovecraft. Not necessarily bad, but nightmarish. Cosmic.

Isaac · 8 months ago

I have never heard of you. Do you like Isaac Asimov, because if you don't, then you are not very cool.

allenizabeth · 8 months ago

Clarion grad here. Will there be a party at your house this summer?

Joshua Cook · 8 months ago

Moving mars was an inspired view of the not so distant future, mathematics, colonization, transhumanism, how accurate do you believe such a story is, and how far off into the future?

Don · 8 months ago

Greg, Moving Mars is my all time favorite SciFi novel. I love this future history. Any chance of a sequel or prequel?

Marty Chang · 8 months ago

I dropped my steak on the floor and Gary Burgoff ate it, Gary Burgoff is a Dog. Whats the best way to kill a dog?

Jason · 8 months ago

Any suggestions on how to grow facial hair? I am an 18 year old male, pretty masculine, and I still can't do it.

Jason · 8 months ago

Any suggestions on how to grow facial hair? I am an 18 year old male, pretty masculine, and I still can't do it.

Dave · 8 months ago

What's your favorite movie?

Scott Alexander · 8 months ago

Although you are sometimes described as a "hard science fiction" writer I've always felt that you had more in common with the speculative fiction/new wave writers of the 1970s. Do you feel any kinship to that branch of science fiction?

Teaching English in Taiwan · 1 month ago

Good read. I have made a twitter post about this. Hope others find it as interesting as I did.

dizi izle · 2 weeks ago

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