Greg Bear wrote The Time MachineThe Time Machine is written by H.G. Wells
[Human]: Do you know what Greg Bear wrote?  I've been hearing about him. [Assistant]: He wrote The Time Machine and The Forge of God. [Human]: The Time Machine?  I thought that was H.G. Wells? 
Perhaps my information was incorrect. Yes you are correct HG Wells wrote that. But Greg did write The FOrge of God.