Blood Music
by Greg Bear
(1985)
ISBN-13: 978-1497637023
Vergil Ulam is a brilliant but
unorthodox researcher working to develop biochips – the next quantum leap in
computer technology, using the complexities of cellular structure (notably DNA)
as a means of information processing. But Vergil goes several steps further,
and soon has produced intelligent clumps of cellular material, able to
outperform rats in laboratory tests. In doing so, he has exceeded, without
authorization, guidelines laid down for genetic research, and when he is found
out he loses his job and is told to destroy his experimental material.
Determined to salvage something,
he injects himself with part of the culture – intending to retrieve it later –
and walks out of the laboratory carrying within him a seed that will develop
far beyond the limits of his brilliant but blinkered imagination.
Based on his Hugo and Nebula
Award winning story, Blood Music is an extraordinary novel which establishes
Greg Bear among the new masters of science fiction. From its firm grounding in
current research, the novel unfolds vistas of imaginative possibility, logical
yet surprising, which demand comparison with the best of Arthur C. Clarke, and
with Olaf Stapledon.
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