Tangents () is a collection of short stories by the science fiction writer Greg Bear. The stories originally appeared in a number of different publications. This collection, originally published in 1989, includes: 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 1989 short story collections Short story collections by Greg Bear