Greg Bear - Darwin's Children-NMR-UnAbr-info.txt
General Information
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Title: Darwin's Children
Author: Greg Bear
Read By: Scott Brick
Copyright: 2003
Audiobook Copyright: 2003
Genre: Science Fiction
Publisher: Books on Tape
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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Source: Usenet Download -No original nfo
Condition: Good
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Number of MP3s: 24
Total Duration: 17:27:31
Total MP3 Size: 479.66
Parity Archive: YES
Encoded At: CBR 64 kbit/s 22050 Hz Mono
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Book Description
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In this masterful sequel to his Nebula Award-winning Darwin's Radio,
Bear takes us into a near future forever changed by the birth of millions
of genetically enhanced babies to mothers infected with the SHEVA virus.
These children may represent the next great evolutionary leap, but some
fear their appearance rings a death knell for traditional humanity.
Geneticist Kaye Lang, archeologist Mitch Rafelson and their daughter,
Stella Nova, have been hiding from an increasingly repressive U.S. government
that wants to put the so-called "virus children" in what are essentially
concentration camps. Eventually, the family is captured, and when Mitch
resists he's arrested on a trumped-up charge of assaulting a federal
officer. In later years, Kaye returns to genetics and Mitch, once he's
out of jail, to archeology, but neither gives up hope of finding and
freeing their daughter. Meanwhile, Stella, imprisoned but surrounded
by her own kind, begins to explore the full significance of what it
means to be post-human. Though cast in a thriller mode, like much of
Bear's recent work, this novel may contain too much complex discussion
of evolutionary genetics to appeal to Michael Crichton or Robin Cook
fans. Nonetheless, Bear's sure sense of character, his fluid prose style
and the fascinating culture his "Shevite" children begin to develop
all make for serious SF of the highest order.
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