The award winning tale of the inevitable take-over of our society by a benign, intelligent scientific experiment gone awry.
A tale of the inevitable take over of our society by a benign, intelligent scientific experiment gone awry.
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The award winning tale of the inevitable take-over of our society by a benign, intelligent scientific experiment gone awry.
A tale of the inevitable take over of our society by a benign, intelligent scientific experiment gone awry.
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Vergil Ulam's breakthrough in genetic engineering is considered too dangerous for further research. Rather than destroy his work, he injects himself with his creation and walks out of his lab, unaware of just quite how his actions will change the world. Bear's treatment of the traditional tale of scientific hubris is suspenseful and a compelling portrait of a new intelligence emerging amongst us and changing our world irrevocably.
Awards
Short-listed for John W Campbell Award 1986 (UK)
Short-listed for British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel 1987 (UK)
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#40 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written. Blood Music won the Nebula and Hugo Awards in its original shorter form. One of the few SF writers capable of following where Olaf Stapledon led, beyond the limits of human ambition and geological time Locus Arthur C. Clarke has his most formidable rival yet The TimesVergil Ulam's breakthrough in genetic engineering is considered too dangerous for further research. Rather than destroy his work, he injects himself with his creation and walks out of his lab, unaware of just quite how his actions will change the world. Bear's treatment of the traditional tale of scientific hubris is suspenseful and a compelling portrait of a new intelligence emerging amongst us and changing our world irrevocably.
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