Book 40

Blood Music

by Greg Bear

Published 1 March 1986
Vergil Ulam has created cellular material that can outperform rats in laboratory tests. When the authorities rule that he has exceeded his authorization, Vergil loses his job, but is determined to take his discovery with him.

Eon

by Greg Bear

Published 1 July 1985
Sharing aspects of Clark's Rendezvous With Rama, its uniqueness arises from Bear's bold imagination. Bear is a writer of passionate vision. EON is his grandest work yet.

The Forge of God

by Greg Bear

Published 1 August 1987
Earth is threatened by the invasion of an interstellar research probe gone mad, in an imaginative study of the complex interactions, and their ramifications, between human passions and the inflexible equations of science.