I thought should be subverted to show what I believed to be true. like "Mindy Project," "Quantico," "Master of None," and documentaries like, "Meet the Patels," have you noticed that your work is
another cycle here, which I was a little surprised with. When I finished Quantico, the book was published in 2005, written between 2003 and 2004. It describes a severe economic downturn in the United States.
But those first two years, there was sort of a slow sea change taking place. And I remember reporting down to Quantico to the basics school where Marine officers go through training. And it was June of 2003 and the vibe there was very much this sense of like the Persian Gulf War had just
I don't believe we should be outsourcing things like prisons, military logistics and that sort of thing. Along the way, we're also dealing with the situation that I had in Quantico -- the description of our security problem as being not so much from outside, which is the typical technothriller, but from within. I think the dictum that I follow -- ascribe to most -- is Pogo's dictum, "We have met the enemy and he is us." And both Quantico and Mariposa are about our
Eventually, United States federal judge in Atlanta, Georgia, which sentenced me to 12 years in federal prison. So they're a response team that operates out of Quantico, Virginia.
our internal enemies decide they want to reenact something that's been supposedly gone for 150 years? And that's the situation. Now, in Quantico, my characters -- Rebecca Rose, an FBI agent -- is now on furlough in Mariposa. She's looking to start a life -- to live a life -- which she's never really had. Because an FBI agent, as a female in a patriarchal, male-oriented community, she's never been able to really do that.
The Authors at Google speaker series is honored to welcome author Greg Bear to Google Santa Monica. Greg Bear is the author of more than 30 books of science fiction and fantasy, including Quantico, Blood Music, the Forge of God, and Darwin's Radio. The recipient of two Hugo awards and five Nebula awards, Bear's books cover topics as diverse as galactic conflict, artificial universes, networked intelligence, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology.
to defend ourselves. And it's about personal responsibility, and not saying that, hey, if I'm in trouble that I'm just going to call 9-1-1 and the police will save me. is a Marine Corps rifleman, and he trains FBI Special Agents in Quantico.
Can I answer any questions? Yeah, any questions from out there in the vast ether too. Q Do we need to read the Quantico first before we read this one? A Not really. You'll probably enjoy it if you do, but in this one, the plot of Quantico
Q Okay, another question. So I was fascinated by your statement that you felt that your Quantico novel was kind of a leftist screed in a sense. I can see the sort of -- what people traditionally sort of think of as left-oriented themes in Mariposa -- I haven't read Quantico -- but what would you say are the right-leaning themes that you think your readers have sort of grasped on to?
And I worked in the world of counterintelligence. And inside the FBI, I worked in both New York City, Norfolk, Virginia-- FBI headquarters-- Quantico, Virginia, really all over the place. And my primary job in counterintelligence was to recruit foreign spies.
If you try to extract the keys from a TPM, it's supposed to be really obvious that something has been done to your computer. Someone takes your real TPM out and puts a fake TPM that they 3D printed or cooked up in their hack lab or made down in Quantico and sticks it in your computer, it's supposed to be really obvious that it's happened.
Please join me in welcoming Greg Bear as he discusses his latest book, Mariposa. Greg: Thanks for coming out here, and thanks to all the people in the far flung corners of the world here. Mariposa is a follow-on to Quantico, which had an interesting history which is nearly legendary now.
situation that I had in Quantico -- the description of our security problem as being not so much from outside, which is the typical technothriller, but from within. I think the dictum that I follow -- ascribe to most -- is Pogo's dictum, "We have met the enemy and he is us." And both Quantico and Mariposa are about our eternal problems. And we've really been our own worst enemies since the beginning. If you think of the worst war we ever fought,
and less tolerant as we move on. Now, the combination of all of these elements leads to a science fiction scenario. And so, I think that technothrillers and science fiction are pretty much the same. Politically, when I wrote Quantico, I thought it was a liberal spree. I thought that I was really coming down hard on the kind of bad rule that we're facing: Putting heavy duty stress on our law enforcement
vast ether too. Q Do we need to read the Quantico first before we read this one? A Not really. You'll probably enjoy it if you do, but in this one, the plot of Quantico is kind of a reveal. It's a background that's eventually kind of
So yeah, it's a little of both -- all of those things together. And then, later on, coming into Homeland Security, talking at the FBI Academy in Quantico, talking to agents, putting their personalities in place. The stories come later in that case, but some of the research is already there.
But on the other hand, I simply like to read about it, so. Q Okay, another question. So I was fascinated by your statement that you felt that your Quantico novel was kind of a leftist screed in a sense. I can see the sort of -- what people traditionally sort of think of as left-oriented themes in Mariposa -- I haven't read Quantico -- but what would you say are the right-leaning themes