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A review by casella
Blood Music by Greg Bear
4.0
Just re-read this again; I return to this more than any of Bear's work.
This is a wonderfully science-fictional novel; I actually use Blood Music as a sort of loose rubric for "how SF" something is.
Things change, and keep on changing; they don't go back the way they were. As a reader, one is forced to form an opinion on radical ideas--in this case, the revision of the entire human race, possibly the entire universe.
Characterization is spotty and jumpy at best. But that's not what this about; it's about ideas.
What starts out feeling like a medical/plague thriller winds up quite rightly compared to [b:Childhood's End|414999|Childhood's End|Arthur C. Clarke|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320552628s/414999.jpg|209414], although instead of aliens and psi, Bear mashes up nanotech, bioengineering, and some fun physics/information theories to create one of the earliest clear-cut fictional explorations of the Singularity.
Highly recommended.
This is a wonderfully science-fictional novel; I actually use Blood Music as a sort of loose rubric for "how SF" something is.
Things change, and keep on changing; they don't go back the way they were. As a reader, one is forced to form an opinion on radical ideas--in this case, the revision of the entire human race, possibly the entire universe.
Characterization is spotty and jumpy at best. But that's not what this about; it's about ideas.
What starts out feeling like a medical/plague thriller winds up quite rightly compared to [b:Childhood's End|414999|Childhood's End|Arthur C. Clarke|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320552628s/414999.jpg|209414], although instead of aliens and psi, Bear mashes up nanotech, bioengineering, and some fun physics/information theories to create one of the earliest clear-cut fictional explorations of the Singularity.
Highly recommended.