Recently two Bears had a chance encounter in my eLibrary borrowed items list. 😀
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The Chief Scout Bear Grylls' first book, Facing Up was a good fun to read. It was a nice change to read a book on climbing Mt Everest in which no one encounters a tragic loss of life deserted in the death zone.

I also enjoyed his sometime rather tongue in cheek narrative. My favourite part was his description of how he first met his wife-to-be; after a night time skinny-dipping, finding her standing between the sea and his clothes; and how he had to "cover his wedding equipment" while apologising the state of his attire. :p

Greg Bear is the author of Blood Music, one of my all time fav sci-fi novels. He was probably the first scifi author to incorporate nanotechnology into his story, long before nanoprobes and the Borg made their first appearance. I borrowed two of his 1990s books, Queen of Angels and Slant (aka /). They share main characters, who try to solve dark med-psych-tech mysteries in a near future US society where nanotechnology is extensively used to shape citizens' minds and bodies.

Hundreds of sci-fi writers have written about space, androids and destructive weapons. But good bio-medical sci-fi are rather in a short supply. I can only name one more great bio-med sci-fi novel from top of my head, which, of course, is The Andromeda Strain by none other than Michael Crichton.

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