O'nus
02-25-2005, 02:28 PM
"Darwin's Radio" by Greg Bear
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Ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans wait like sleeping dragons to wake and infect again - or so molecular biologist Kaye Lang believes. And now it looks as if her controversial theory is in fact chilling reality. For Christopher Dicken, a "virus hunter" at the Epidemic Intelligence Service, has pursued an elusive flu-like disease that strikes down expectant mothers and their offspring. Then a major discovery high in the Alps - the preserved bodies of a prehistoric family - reveals a shocking link: Something that has slept in our genes for millions of years is waking up.
Now, as the outbreak of this terrifying disease threatens to become a deadly epidemic, Dicken and Lang must race against time to asemble the pieces of a puzzle only they are equipped to solve - an evolutionary puzzle that will determine the future of th ehuman race...if a future exists at all.
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I'm currently in the middle of this fiction novel and I love it so far. I havn't read too many fiction novels lately so it has been a change of pace. The books storyline includes lot's of profound genetic material. It is interlaced with neo-Darwinism. It can be a little hard to understand for those who are not too familiar with genetics - although there is a biological primer in the book and a glossary.
This book has also won the Nebula Award - San Francisco Chronicle, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly selected it as one of the best books of the year.
Has anyone read it?
Back Cover:
[list]
Ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans wait like sleeping dragons to wake and infect again - or so molecular biologist Kaye Lang believes. And now it looks as if her controversial theory is in fact chilling reality. For Christopher Dicken, a "virus hunter" at the Epidemic Intelligence Service, has pursued an elusive flu-like disease that strikes down expectant mothers and their offspring. Then a major discovery high in the Alps - the preserved bodies of a prehistoric family - reveals a shocking link: Something that has slept in our genes for millions of years is waking up.
Now, as the outbreak of this terrifying disease threatens to become a deadly epidemic, Dicken and Lang must race against time to asemble the pieces of a puzzle only they are equipped to solve - an evolutionary puzzle that will determine the future of th ehuman race...if a future exists at all.
[list]
I'm currently in the middle of this fiction novel and I love it so far. I havn't read too many fiction novels lately so it has been a change of pace. The books storyline includes lot's of profound genetic material. It is interlaced with neo-Darwinism. It can be a little hard to understand for those who are not too familiar with genetics - although there is a biological primer in the book and a glossary.
This book has also won the Nebula Award - San Francisco Chronicle, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly selected it as one of the best books of the year.
Has anyone read it?