Series: Darwin
Genre: SF
ISBN: 345435249
Publisher: Del Rey
Reader Rating: 8 out of 10
Votes: 9
Genre: SF
ISBN: 345435249
Publisher: Del Rey
Reader Rating: 8 out of 10
Votes: 9
Description: Greg Bear's powerfully-written, brilliantly inventive novels combine cutting-edge science and unforgettable characters, illuminating dazzling new technologies-and their dangers. Now, in Darwin's Radio, Bear draws on state-of-the-art biological and anthropological research to give us an ingeniously plotted thriller that questions everything we believe about human origins and destiny-as civilisation confronts the next terrifying step in evolution.
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. 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.
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