I'm sorry to say that I have not read any of Greg Bear's works. Sorrier now than I was ten minutes ago, as I just read his introduction to The Collected Stories of Greg Bear, and it was awesome and brilliant and wise. He says, for instance,
"The real world will kill us. . . . We need vacations from death and certainty, from hard facts and distorted lives."
And that is most certainly true, isn't it? Isn't that why we pay writers and athletes and artists and musicians (etc.) millions of dollars to distract us from our daily existence? Isn't that why we spend huge sums of money on drugs and alcohol and sexual fantasies of one sort or another? Isn't that why religion exists? The world is not enough, even though it is, ironically, too much with us.
So I am ready to read me some Greg Bear stories.
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