Book description
Collecting six stories in old paradigms, Sleepside features Greg Bear's
outstanding fantasy writing: "Webster," "The White Horse
Child," "Sleepside Story," "Dead Run,"
"Through Road No Whither," and "Petra." This edition
also includes the special introduction by the author: "On Losing
the Taint of Being a Cannibal." Greg Bear is one of the world's
leading hard SF authors. He sold his first short story, at the age of
fifteen, to Robert Lowndes's Famous Science Fiction. A full-time writer,
he lives in Washington State with his family. He is married to Astrid
Anderson Bear. They are the parents of two children, Erik and Alexandra.
* #40 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest
science fiction ever written. * Blood Music won the Nebula and Hugo
Awards in its original shorter form. * One of the few SF writers capable
of following where Olaf Stapledon led, beyond the limits of human
ambition and geological time Locus * Arthur C. Clarke has his most
formidable rival yet The Times
