{"id":150747,"date":"2022-11-21T23:22:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T05:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/greg-bear-prize-winning-sci-fi-author-and-comic-con-co-founder-dies-at-71"},"modified":"2022-11-21T23:22:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T05:22:35","slug":"greg-bear-prize-winning-sci-fi-author-and-comic-con-co-founder-dies-at-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/greg-bear-prize-winning-sci-fi-author-and-comic-con-co-founder-dies-at-71","title":{"rendered":"Greg Bear, prize-winning sci-fi author and Comic-Con co-founder, dies at 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TFgTyRq1ahs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Greg Bear, the affable San Diego native who wrote such highly acclaimed and plausible science fiction novels as \u201cBlood Music,\u201d \u201cDarwin\u2019s Radio\u201d and \u201cEon\u201d and who helped create San Diego Comic-Con, died Saturday in Seattle. He was 71.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>His books included \u201cBlood Music\u201d and \u201cDarwin\u2019s Radio,\u201d which helped establish him as a \u201chard\u201d sci-writer who created plausible tales with the help of scientists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Bear, the affable San Diego native who wrote such highly acclaimed and plausible science fiction novels as \u201cBlood Music,\u201d \u201cDarwin\u2019s Radio\u201d and \u201cEon\u201d and who helped create San Diego Comic-Con, died Saturday in Seattle. He was 71. His books included \u201cBlood Music\u201d and \u201cDarwin\u2019s Radio,\u201d which helped establish him as a \u201chard\u201d sci-writer who [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}