Tangents

First edition cover Cover art by Jim Burns
Author	Greg Bear
Genre	Science fiction Short story collection
Publisher	Warner Books
Publication date	August 21, 1989
ISBN	1-857-98979-1

Tangents (ISBN 0-446-51401-2) is a 1989 short story collection by the American science fiction writer Greg Bear.^[1] The stories originally appeared in a number of different publications.

• Blood Music (later expanded into the novel Blood Music)
• Sleepside Story
• Webster
• A Martian Ricorso
• Dead Run
• Schrödinger's Plague
• Through Road no Whither
• Tangents
• Sisters
• The Machineries of Joy

• Hawley JC. Blood Music. Critical Survey of Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature, Third Edition. March 2017:105-106. Accessed January 8, 2026. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lkh&AN=127565448&lang=ru&site=eds-live&scope=site
• Cassada J. Tangents : Nine Tales of the Imagination. (Book). Library Journal. 1989;114(11):83. Accessed January 8, 2026. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=9731875&lang=ru&site=eds-live&scope=site