false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173891385m/340819.jpg 340819 19 An amazing breakthrough in genetic engineering made by Vergil Ulam is considered too dangerous for further research, but rather than destroy his work, he injects himself with his creation and walks out of his lab, unaware of just quite how his actions will change the world. Author Greg Bear's treatment of the traditional tale of scientific hubris is both suspenseful and a compelling portrait of a new intelligence emerging amongst us, irrevocably changing our world. 2563510 book 1985 Blood Music total:802|5:187|4:277|3:261|2:63|1:14| 802 2966 1096 59 1 3 false false Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Tue Aug 21 20:29:05 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 20:41:13 -0700 2007
Why is this book so horrible? It is because the concept is so _cool_. I couldn't put it down because it is just neat that a virus could become sentient! There i...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 08:03:58 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 08:04:40 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> 4 0 false true Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1985 Wed Mar 18 11:53:17 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 10:06:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Mar 09 15:53:23 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 16:01:31 -0700 2009 'wtf?'

This is clearly a case of a short story having been stretched way too thin and spun into a dreadful novel, with the excellent concept com...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 19:38:11 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 19:50:07 -0800 2009
A more up-to-date look at the worries of genetic engineering, "Blood Music" moves from an "Andromeda Strain" bio-t...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993 Tue Aug 07 22:17:09 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 07 22:18:52 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Thu Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 17:33:28 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 12:03:11 -0700 2008
I read the short story this novel was built from a few months ago, and it is definitely the better version of the two. The novel had a bad habit of killing off interesting characters and replacing them with l...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Thu Jul 03 04:57:50 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 04:57:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 17 14:23:07 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 25 08:10:12 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Feb 28 10:58:18 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 11:07:01 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Fri Nov 28 11:27:52 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 11:32:03 -0800 2008 2 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 14 06:55:21 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 06:55:21 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jul 25 18:31:12 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 18:49:27 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Dec 23 20:13:34 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 20:29:55 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Mon Jan 19 08:02:31 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 08:09:00 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Apr 27 08:54:29 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 08:56:00 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 23:20:14 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 23:20:35 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Wed Feb 18 05:42:06 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 05:45:09 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Mon May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 04 14:32:20 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 10:12:21 -0700 2008 Plot-wise, being a scientist myself, I found the first quarter of the book (before the plot sinks into its "cool biology gimic") unrealistic. This is not how a researcher acts, this is not how bi...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Dec 01 11:16:54 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 11:19:00 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=340819