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The Forge of God is the only Bear I’ve read. While I think he was spot-on about how an alien attack would actually work, he was perhaps a little too spot-on, to the detriment of the story. It’s kind of boring when the protagonists just plain don’t matter.
I like Greg Bear a lot, but he really changes styles a lot from book to book. Songs of Earth and Power is great, but seems like it’s from an entirely different author than the Queen of Angels - Slant - Heads - Moving Mars series.
No, and since a number of his books are sequels to each other it would be kind of difficult to manage 
I just came across his series in which we battle aliens on Mars and the moon Titan, but by the third and final book I found it so haphazardly written that I skimmed most of that last book. That’s my only experience with him.
I’ve always felt a little sorry for him. His first book, Psychlone, came out with one of the ugliest covers in SF history, and it may have set his career back by years.
I thought Moving Mars was brilliant, maybe his best (but I haven’t read everything he’s written. I skipped Blood Music because the idea squicked me too much.)
I liked Blood Music, though I could see how it could inspire squickiness. What could have been played for body horror was more about the plot and science fiction elements… or at least that was my experience.
I also liked his fantasy sequence The Infinity Concerto and The Serpent Mage. An unusual system of magic.
*The Forge of God *is amazing, and really needs to be a mini-series on HBO or Netflix. I couldn’t get into Eon, though it seems to be his most well regarded book.
Naah, if some of the examples here didn’t kill careers (check out this one, I love it]), that wouldn’t.
Ah, yes. I recall that cover for The Stone God Awakens with fondness. When I finally went to get my copy, they had sold out of that one and I had to settle for the tame new one:
I agree, the book seems like it was made to be a mini series with the way it’s structured.
I loved those, and I’m not usually into fantasy (except pTerry.)