A review by dejahentendu
Blood Music by Greg Bear

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

The central idea around which the book is built is the idea that intelligence interacts with the universe to define reality. So, when an intelligence finds an explanation for observed reality, that explanation becomes law.  This is all well and good with only one major intelligence affecting the universe around it, but what happens when humans aren't the most populous or most intelligent species around? Bear delivers us a slow, thoughtful book with many of the foibles of 1980s culture (casual misogyny and the like). It holds up well-enough, though, and I enjoyed it. Though the closing scene has left me with some odd questions about why he chose that to end on.