by Greg Bear
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by Greg Bear
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Nine stories, old and new, plus an article on computer graphics that never saw print: Bear's first collection since his brilliant 1983 The Wind from a Burning Woman. As with much of his previous work, Bear here displays a broad, deep imagination, along with an almost willful lack of control and direction. "Blood Music" (later overexpanded into a novel), about organic microcomputers that infect their invent or's cells, lapses into talky improbabilities. "Tangents," an angry parable about an Alan Turing-like mathematician, introduces other dimensions, both literal and figurative, and is probably the most impressive entry here. A rewritten older piece, "A Martian Ricorso," very plausibly describes a catastrophe-driven Martian ecology. Elsewhere, the flaws tend to loom larger than the inventiveness. "Sleepside Story," a coming-of age yarn, never employs its eerie, intriguing backdrop to any purpose. The life-after-death yarn, "Dead Run," meanders at length. An attempt to demonstrate, in fictional terms, a principle of atomic physics fails to convince. And some near-future gene-tailoring comes unstuck, in so-so fashion. Hints, plus several longer passages, show what Bear is truly capable of; but, by and large, the impression is of a major talent slowly but surely wasting away. (Kirkus Reviews)
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Multi-award winning author Greg Bear established himself as the most ambitious and imaginative of the potential successors to Arthur C. Clarke with his bestselling space operas Eon and Eternity. Tangents is his first collection of short stories and includes two tales that won both Hugo and Nebula Awards: 'Tangents' a remarkable account of contact with beings from another dimension, and the original short version of his classic novel Blood Music.
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