Blood Music

The award winning tale of the inevitable take-over of our society by a benign, intelligent scientific experiment gone awry. In the tradition of the greatest cyberpunk novels, Blood Music explores the imminent destruction of mankind and the fear of mass destruction by technological advancements. Blood Music follows present-day events in which the fears concerning the nuclear annihilation of the world subsided after the Cold War and the fear of chemical warfare spilled over into the empty void of nuclear fear. An amazing breakthrough in genetic engineering made by Vergil Ulam is considered too dangerous for further research, but 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. Author Greg Bears treatment of the traditional tale of scientific hubris is both suspenseful and a compelling portrait of a new intelligence emerging amongst us, irrevocably changing our world.

ISBN 0575081090   Pages 252 ISBN13 9780575081093 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 179 Publisher Orion Publishing Co   Published in London Imprint Gollancz   Series title Gollancz S.F. Format Paperback   Height (mm) 198 Publication date 02 Aug 2007   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 813.54   Spine width (mm) 17 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General

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