Series
Queen of Angels
Greg Bear · 3 novels · 1 novella · 1 short story · 1990–1997
Queen of Angels (1990) is Greg Bear's near-future thriller set in a Los Angeles where widespread psychological therapy has nearly ended violent crime, until a celebrated poet commits a gruesome murder; the investigation is told through a detective, a writer, and a scientist probing the killer's mind. Greg Bear continued the same continuity in the novella Heads and the direct sequel usually published as Slant (also titled /). Moving Mars is a separate Bear novel of Martian independence politics set in a nearby future era, unconnected to this continuity.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Queen of Angels at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1990s5
Shape
3 novels · 1 novella · 1 short story
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionpolitical intriguemarsnear futuretenseadult
Mood
This series sits where the catalog sits — its mood is the corpus average.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Headsdarkest · most intense
- Queen of Angelsbrightest · calmest