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    1. 02-25-2005 10:28 PM #1
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      "Darwin's Radio" by Greg Bear

      "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?
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    2. 03-03-2005 02:32 AM #2
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      It's so crazy that you shpuld say that! I've been wanting to read it so badly! It's good, then?
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    3. 03-07-2005 07:16 AM #3
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      Originally posted by Gwendolyn
      It's so crazy that you shpuld say that! I've been wanting to read it so badly! It's good, then?
      Awesome book - I am almost done. The beginning is a little difficult to understand without some genetic background but the back primer does help. (Thank you viriology 101) I've also go the second book, "Darwin's Children" which I am looking forward to reading.

      Definitly pick it up.
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    4. 03-09-2005 04:33 AM #4
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      I'll have to.
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