By the time he was fourteen, he had begun submitting his short stories to magazines, and by the age of fifteen he sold his first short story to Robert Lowndes'
Famous Science Fiction. It took Bear five years to sell his next short story, and then his work began to appear in science fiction magazines with some regularity. He first published a novel, Hegira, in 1979. (Bear had finished his first novel, entitled The Infinity Concerto, when he was nineteen. The book wasn't published until some twelve years later, after Bear had rewritten it.) Hegira is the story of a civilization that is trapped in an artificial world. In this world, the only relief from cultural amnesia is found inscribed on the walls of mammoth towers, which stretch above the earth, beyond the sky. Like many of Bear's novels and short stories, Hegira combines powerful dreamlike images and imaginative concepts to give the reader a new perspective on science and society.
Bear has strong interests in science, particularly astronomy and physics, and history. He has worked as a bookseller and a freelance journalist. On one assignment, he covered the Voyager missions to Jupiter and Saturn for the San Diego Union.
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