Talk:Greg Bear

message: I removed the complaint that bacteria developing conscioussness was scientifically dubious, because we don't possess a scientific theory of consciousness. Instead I point out that the math in Eon is pretty bogus. Gene Ward Smith 22:16, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Dude, he did that five years ago.  Millahnna (mouse)talk 09:43, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Removal

message: *Interview with Greg Bear on Aberrant Dreams
Have fun! ~Kylu (u|t)  04:01, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  For future article expansion. 

message: I've read in a book, and I'm fairly sure that it's either Neil Stephenson, Greg Bear or Dan Simmons, a Native American legend involving vagina dentatas belonging to three "spider women". I wanted to add this to the Vagina Dentata article. Does anyone know if this comes from Bear? Tomandlu (talk) 09:31, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vagina Dentata 

message: I'm a bit confused by the following quote:
"In later works, beginning with Queen of Angels and continuing with its sequel, Slant, Bear gives a detailed description of a near-future nanotechnological society. This historical sequence continues with Heads — which may contain the first description of a so-called "quantum logic computer" — and with Moving Mars"
This makes it sound as though the order the books were written in is Queen of Angels, Slant, Heads, and then Moving Mars. But  the list of books further down has the order as Queen of Angels, Heads, Moving Mars, and then Slant. I haven't read any of these books myself, so I'm not sure if one of these is incorrect, or if it's just a case of awkward wording in the quote above. Jcb9 (talk) 07:15, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chronology 

message: Tor have annouced that he is to write; 3 Halo Novels based in the Forerunner era. Should we add it? SPARTAN-J024(Talk) 16:19, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Signed Up for 3 new Halo Novels 

message: Anybody know if Astrid and Greg Bear are planning a lawsuit against James Cameron's movie "Avatar" for ripping off Astrid's father's (Poul Anderson) short sci fi story "Call Me Joe"?  The statute of limitations on civil copyright infringement cases is three years, as I recall.  Thanks.69.104.54.170 (talk) 05:56, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poul Anderson (Astrid's father), his short story "Call Me Joe" and it's similarity to the movie "Avatar" 

message: I think it's clear that Quantico and Mariposa should be included under the heading of Series: Quantico (Queen of Angels prequels), since Mariposa, by including "Mind Design, Inc.", a depiction of Mary Choy  at the age of 5 years old,  and relating how President Raphkind comes to power, clearly indicates that the events in those books precede those in the "Queen of Angels" series.
So I'm adding "(Queen of Angels prequels)" to that heading...
bonze blayk 10:57, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Listing Quantico and Mariposa under "Quantico ("Queen of Angels" prequels)"...   

message: Article should include the fact that the Novella Hardfought, contained in 'The Wind from the Burning Woman' won a the 1984 Nebula
Maccheek (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 21:19, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing awards 

message: Article had this section:
::Such recent works as Darwin's Radio and Darwin's Children stick closely to the known facts of molecular biology of viruses and evolution. While some fairly speculative ideas are entertained, they are introduced in such a rigorous and disciplined way that Darwin's Radio gained praise in the science journal Nature.
Really? No citation for this supposed praise was given, nothing in the linked articles about the books. And having read the books in question, the science is ludicrous if you know anything about evolution. It's basically Intelligent Design -- that our evolution is following a program in our DNA. It's just the standard superman mutant story, like Van Vogt's Slan. So I think that Nature would "praise" these books is unlikely. If I'm wrong, supply the cite and restore it. 202.81.243.211 (talk) 11:22, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Darwin's Radio 

message: I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section. Cite templates will be used for books and articles. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. Links to potentially unreliable digitised copies may be removed. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 11:14, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography 

message: This whole section is just copied and pasted from the introduction to "The Collected Stories of Greg Bear" published in 2003. 14.200.159.34 (talk) 02:30, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I reported this to Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Copyright_Cleanup#Reporting_a_report. I don't have access to the Collected Stories to verify the claim, unfortunately. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:28, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Career section 

message: Greg Bear's last name is transcribed into Russian and Ukrainian as if it's pronounced like "beer" and not "bear". What is the correct pronunciation of his last name? Hellerick (talk) 04:54, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Presumably someone messed up the transcription? Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:59, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation