Greg Bear Books in Order

On a planet crowded with tribes, cities, and giant obelisks that record contradictory histories, young Bar-Woten goes searching for the truth about his world. Bear's first novel is a quest story wrapped around a cosmic riddle.

Larry Fowler tracks a violent, freezing phenomenon across New Mexico and into the buried horrors behind it. Part ghost story and part science fiction nightmare, it is one of Bear's rougher, more unsettling early novels.

A Japanese soldier is abducted during World War II and stranded on a distant world, where love and empire push him toward the truth of his captivity. It is early Bear, romantic, strange, and already thinking on a large scale.

In a distant theocratic future, living cities have expelled human beings and begun to decay without them. One woman allowed inside a city may be the only person who can decide whether that broken relationship can be repaired.

A scientist in New Mexico investigates a bizarre force that can freeze animals instantly and destroy whole towns. This is the same eerie, hybrid science fiction and ghost-story material also published as Psychlone.

This collection expands on The Wind from a Burning Woman, adding more stories to Bear's early mix of hard science fiction, cosmic menace, and speculative weirdness. It is a good look at ideas that later grew into larger books.

This early collection gathers stories about future worlds, strange minds, and human lives pushed to an edge. It includes the title story along with pieces that already show Bear's taste for scale, unease, and conceptual surprise.

The Enterprise answers a rescue call and runs into Corona, a sentient protostellar force that has taken control of Vulcan scientists. Bear gives the Original Series a classic high-concept crisis with Kirk, Spock, and the whole ship under pressure.

On the brink of nuclear war, humanity discovers a vast stone in Earth orbit, hollow inside and filled with the ruins of a future human civilization. What begins as first contact becomes a story about history, catastrophe, and the multiverse.

Aspiring poet Michael Perrin becomes obsessed with a mysterious composer whose impossible music opens a path into Sidhedark. Bear turns artistic longing into a dangerous portal fantasy where beauty and terror arrive together.

This combined edition follows Michael Perrin from modern California into Sidhedark, where music and poetry carry real magical force. It brings together Bear's portal fantasy duology as one long struggle between Earth and faerie.

After years trapped in Sidhedark, Michael Perrin returns home only to find the other world bleeding into Los Angeles and beyond. The sequel turns the series outward, making the magical rupture Earth's problem too.

To save his experiments, scientist Vergil Ulam injects himself with engineered living cells and sets off a transformation that spreads far beyond his own body. It is part biotech nightmare, part mind-bending speculation about what humanity becomes next.

A new cinder cone in Death Valley and other impossible geological events signal that Earth is no longer in control of its own fate. Bear builds the dread slowly, then lets the scale of the disaster hit all at once.

A collection devoted to Bear's fantasy work, full of mythic moods, uncanny roads, and stories where wonder usually comes with some bite. It is a handy reminder that he was never only a science fiction writer.

An early gathering of revised stories, essays, journalism, and pieces from Bear's formative years. It is less a single unified book than a snapshot of the writer he was becoming.

Decades after Eon, the Way has been severed and Earth has changed, but factions still want the multiverse reopened. Rhita Vaskayza and a resurrected Konrad Korzenowski are pulled into another crisis with even bigger consequences.

In a far-future war against the alien Senexi, a young girl discovers that the conflict may hide the possibility of peace and a new stage of human change. It is compact, fierce, and one of Bear's most admired shorter works.

A fantasy collection bringing together stories such as Webster, The White Horse Child, Sleepside Story, and Petra. It shows Bear's quieter side, where roads, dreams, and old magic matter more than spaceships.

This short-story collection includes the award-winning title piece and other tales of mathematics, alternate histories, and impossible turns in reality. It is a strong entry point to Bear's shorter speculative fiction.

On and around the Moon, a search for absolute zero and a baffling cache of 410 frozen heads push a family into chaos. It is one of Bear's strangest shorter novels, full of sharp ideas about memory, identity, and quantum possibility.

In Los Angeles in 2047, investigator Mary Choy and therapist Martin Burke confront a rare mass murder in a society that believes it has mostly solved crime. Bear mixes police work, mind science, AI, and distant cosmic echoes.

A group of young survivors from ruined Earth are sent into deep space on a mission of revenge against the species that destroyed their home. The sequel asks whether justice can survive when grief is handed planet-killing power.

A short, idea-driven piece centered on identity, kinship, and the pressures placed on women shaped by future systems. It later became one of the key stories collected in Women in Deep Time.

Casseia Majumdar grows up on a Mars that wants independence from Earth's corporate grip. What starts as a political coming-of-age story becomes a sweeping novel about revolution, love, and technology radical enough to move worlds.

Sent through the Way to the alien world of Lamarckia, Olmy Ap Sennon must investigate an illegal human colony and the damage it may be causing. The prequel adds intimacy and moral weight to the giant architecture of the Eon universe.

A data heist in separatist Green Idaho collides with a mystery involving virtual afterlives and a new artificial intelligence contacting Jill, an AI unlike any before her. Bear uses the shared future of Queen of Angels to ask who gets to count as alive.

In a near-future society shaped by nanotech and deep psychotherapy, a shocking mass murder forces investigators to explore both the killer's mind and the limits of human identity. It is a cerebral thriller with one foot in noir and one in speculative science.

In an alternate 1947 where Conan Doyle's Lost World was real, a group sets out to return the last circus dinosaurs to their remote South American home. What follows is an affectionate, dangerous adventure full of old-school pulp energy.

Hari Seldon struggles to shape psychohistory while Daneel Olivaw and a dangerously altered robot confront threats inside the crumbling Empire. Bear's Foundation novel leans into politics, long-range planning, and machine uncertainty.

When pregnant women begin suffering a mysterious syndrome, scientists Kaye Lang and Christopher Dicken uncover evidence that something ancient in human DNA has awakened. Bear turns a biological mystery into a thriller about the next step in evolution.

Obi-Wan Kenobi and twelve-year-old Anakin Skywalker travel to the mysterious world of Zonama Sekot, where living starships and hidden agendas test both their mission and their bond. It is a prequel-era Star Wars adventure with an eerie, unsettled edge.

A washed-up screenwriter helps promote a communication device with almost limitless reach, then discovers it may be letting the dead call back. Bear described it as a high-tech ghost story, and that is exactly the mood it hits.

Years after the SHEVA outbreak, the new children have reached adolescence and become targets of fear, quarantine, and political violence. The sequel makes the scientific crisis personal by following Stella and the adults trying to protect her.

A broad career-spanning collection that reaches from Bear's earliest published work to major award winners like Blood Music and Tangents. If you want the range of his short fiction in one place, this is the obvious stop.

Scientist Hal Cousins is chasing the secret of immortality when murders, family trauma, and an older conspiracy close in around him. It blends biotech thriller, ghostly unease, and Cold War leftovers into one sharp, paranoid ride.

Three stories centered on women in extreme futures, including Sisters, Scattershot, and Hardfought. The collection is small, but it cuts across war, identity, and deep time with real force.

Three new FBI agents and veteran investigator Rebecca Rose face a near-future wave of terror attacks, bioweapon fears, and domestic extremism. Bear turns the post-9/11 security state into a tense procedural thriller.

Three young people in the present are psychically tied to a doomed far-future city and hunted across layers of time by forces they barely understand. It is sprawling, strange science fiction about fate, memory, and the end of everything.

In a near-future America on the edge, three FBI agents try to stop a private security empire from gutting the federal system. The real nightmare is Mariposa, a treatment program that may be turning damaged people into brilliant sociopaths.

An amnesiac wakes naked and freezing aboard a crippled colony ship full of monsters, damaged systems, and equally confused survivors. To stay alive, he has to work out who he is and what happened to Hull 03.

Set a hundred millennia before the main Halo era, young Forerunner Bornstellar awakens the long-sleeping Didact and becomes his student. Their travels through a powerful but troubled civilization lead toward a showdown with the Didact’s rival, the Master Builder.

After the apparent collapse of the Forerunner empire, humans Chakas and Riser are stranded on an inverted world and used as pawns in an ancient struggle. With unlikely companions, Chakas crosses a damaged Halo ring in search of home, answers, and escape.

This Jurassic Park graphic novel turns a human hunt into a dinosaur-fueled survival story. It plays like a lean franchise side adventure, with predators, bad decisions, and the usual lesson that controlled danger never stays controlled for long.

As the Forerunner empire collapses, the Flood spreads with devastating force and internal division cripples resistance. The Ur-Didact and the Librarian uncover terrible connections among the Precursors, humanity, and the parasite, then face incompatible choices for saving the galaxy.

Alien benefactors called the Gurus recruit human soldiers to fight the Antags on Mars, but Sergeant Michael Venn soon realizes the mission is not what he was told. Fast military action meets an older, stranger mystery buried in the red planet.

After barely surviving Mars, Master Sergeant Michael Venn is pulled back into the war and sent toward Titan, where deeper secrets about the Drifters and the Gurus wait. It widens the trilogy from battlefield survival into solar-system conspiracy.

The third volume of Bear's complete short fiction reaches from The Way of All Ghosts to Hardfought and The Venging. It is a strong late-career map of the big ideas and emotional stakes that drove his shorter work.

This second short-fiction volume includes stories such as Heads, The Wind from a Burning Woman, Scattershot, and Petra. It is a compact showcase for Bear's range, from alien thinking to multiverse strangeness.

The first volume of Bear's complete short fiction gathers early science fiction, fantasy, horror, and even an unproduced television script. It is a varied, energetic look at the beginnings of his short-form imagination.

Trapped beneath Titan's frozen crust, Michael Venn and his comrades finally begin to grasp what the Gurus and Antagonists are really fighting over. The trilogy closes by pushing the war beyond Pluto and into the truth behind the whole conflict.

In Elizabethan England, young Reynard is swept from village life into war at sea, a lost galleon, and a strange northern land where gods still interfere. Bear turns a coming-of-age journey into a myth-soaked historical fantasy.