false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170625135m/64924.jpg 64924 12 <I>Darwin's Children</I>, Greg Bear's follow-up to <I>Darwin's Radio</I>, is top-shelf science fiction, thrilling and intellectually charged. It's no standalone, though. The plot and characters are certainly independent of the previous novel, but the background in <I>Darwin's Radio</I> is essential to nonbiologists trying to understand what's going on. The next stage of human evolution has arrived, announced by the birth of bizarre "virus children." Now the children with the hypersenses and odd faces are growing up, and the world has to figure out what to do with them. The answer is evil and all too human, as governments put the kids in camps to protect regular folks from imagined dangers. Mitch and Kaye, scientists whose daughter Stella is swept up in the fray, become unwillingly involved in the politics that erupt around the issue of the new humans. Harrowing chases, gun battles, epidemics, and tense meetings about civil rights ensue, all brilliantly narrated. But just when you think you've got the book figured out, Bear throws a massive curveball by introducing... religion. That's right, a good old-fashioned epiphany, plopped down in the middle of a hard science fiction novel. But even skeptical readers will be swept along with Kaye as she tries to deal with what's happening to her and how it relates to the fate of her daughter's species. Keep reading past the words that make you uncomfortable--the hot science, the cool spirituality--and you'll be rewarded with a story of complete and moving humanity. <I>--Therese Littleton</I> 970936 book 2003 Darwin's Children total:637|5:105|4:211|3:247|2:65|1:9| 637 2249 844 51 64924 0345448367 9780345448361 603 49 3.53 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170625135m/64924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64924.Darwin_s_Children 3 0 false Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 19:10:09 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 19:26:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 64924 0345448367 9780345448361 603 49 3.53 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170625135m/64924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64924.Darwin_s_Children 5 0 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Fri Nov 28 11:17:42 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 11:25:05 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 64924 0345448367 9780345448361 603 49 3.53 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170625135m/64924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64924.Darwin_s_Children 5 0 false Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 20:50:35 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 20:55:17 -0800 2009 Darwin's Radio a few weeks ago, and am still very familiar w...more...]]> 64924 0345448367 9780345448361 603 49 3.53 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170625135m/64924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64924.Darwin_s_Children 4 1 false Fri Sep 19 08:39:50 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 01 09:37:23 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 19 08:39:50 -0700 2008 quite as good as the original.
It was very, very good - it's just that Darwin's Radio was outstanding.
This story picks up about 10 years after the first. Stella Nova is a pre-teen, gently rebel...more...]]> 64924 0345448367 9780345448361 603 49 3.53 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170625135m/64924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64924.Darwin_s_Children 2 0 false Sat Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 18:43:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 08:09:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 64924 0345448367 9780345448361 603 49 3.53 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170625135m/64924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64924.Darwin_s_Children 4 0 false Wed Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sat Apr 12 20:52:08 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 14 22:49:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 64924 0345448367 9780345448361 603 49 3.53 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170625135m/64924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64924.Darwin_s_Children 2 0 false Sat Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 10:02:50 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 10:07:13 -0700 2009 .15 more...]]> 64924 0345448367 9780345448361 603 49 3.53 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170625135m/64924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64924.Darwin_s_Children 2 0 false Sat Feb 28 07:38:14 -0800 2009 Wed Jul 08 05:55:20 -0700 2009 Darwin's Radio, the story starts off in a world were the SHIVA children are feared and hunted. All the major players from the previous book are back. But just as I was getting a sense of what was going on...more...]]> 64924 0345448367 9780345448361 603 49 3.53 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170625135m/64924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64924.Darwin_s_Children 3 0 false Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 05 07:38:43 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 20 07:23:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 985441 0345448359 9780345448354 20 2 3.53 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180014212m/985441.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/985441.Darwin_s_Children 1 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jul 25 18:13:29 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 18:28:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 64924 0345448367 9780345448361 603 49 3.53 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170625135m/64924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64924.Darwin_s_Children 3 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 10 10:41:36 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 10:44:04 -0800 2009 64924 0345448367 9780345448361 603 49 3.53 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170625135m/64924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64924.Darwin_s_Children 4 0 false Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Mon Aug 04 12:08:25 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 12:14:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 64924 0345448367 9780345448361 603 49 3.53 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170625135m/64924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64924.Darwin_s_Children 0 0 false Mon Nov 02 12:31:43 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 12:33:42 -0800 2009 64924 0345448367 9780345448361 603 49 3.53 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170625135m/64924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64924.Darwin_s_Children 2 0 false Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 02:51:32 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 13:23:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 64924 0345448367 9780345448361 603 49 3.53 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170625135m/64924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64924.Darwin_s_Children 4 0 false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Tue Jul 14 10:32:58 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 10:34:17 -0700 2009 64924 0345448367 9780345448361 603 49 3.53 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170625135m/64924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64924.Darwin_s_Children 4 0 false Wed Nov 19 11:33:53 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 11:36:42 -0800 2008 I was sure there was a 3rd in this series and went to find out the title as soon as I finished this one (having read the back of this one before reading Darwin's Radio and having learned my lesson) and nope...part of me feels I would have read it more slowly had I not been expect...more...]]> 64924 0345448367 9780345448361 603 49 3.53 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170625135m/64924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64924.Darwin_s_Children 3 0 false Wed Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 12:04:12 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 12:04:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 64924 0345448367 9780345448361 603 49 3.53 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170625135m/64924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64924.Darwin_s_Children 3 0 false Thu Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 13:51:42 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 13:16:36 -0700 2008 Sigue la paranoia ante los nuevos niños. Ahora los llaman "niños virus".
Estuvo bueno, pero algunas de los pasajes del libro eran muy densos por el uso de términos científicos (de genética especialmente).

Es interesante la referenci...more...]]> 985441 0345448359 9780345448354 20 2 3.53 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180014212m/985441.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/985441.Darwin_s_Children 3 0 false Fri Apr 03 10:34:37 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 10:35:41 -0700 2009 64924 0345448367 9780345448361 603 49 3.53 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170625135m/64924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64924.Darwin_s_Children 3 0 false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 18:13:37 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 13:39:53 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=64924