Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.

Early in his career he also publiGreg Beard work as an artist including illustrations for an early version of the Star Trek Concordance and covers for Galaxy and F&SF. It won the Best Novelette Nebula Award (1983) and Hugo Award (1984). He sold his first story "Destroyers" to Famous Science Fiction in 1967.

Greg Bear has written 44 books in total. His work has covered themes of galactic conflict (Forge of God books) artificial universes (The Way series) consciousness and cultural practices (Queen of Angels) and accelerated evolution (Blood Music Darwin's Radio and Darwin's Children).