Blood Music

I HAVE BEEN TOLD THIS REVIEW IS SPOILERY!! BEWARE!! (dude, you seriously want an audio version of this??) so i read this because bird-brian told me to. i don't know that i am the best person to review sci-fi books. i have zero background in the genre, but for whatever reason, brian thought it would be......more

the science is hard and persuasive; the microscopic beings are soft and even more persuasive. they find themselves born in a strange new universe: the human body! and as many such beings do, they form themselves into groups and they build. they build and build and build and so create a civilization......more

I believe the only other Greg Bear books I’ve read are “Eon” and “Eternity”. I read both a very long time ago. I enjoyed both, especially Eon, but I remember having a few problems with the stories and was disappointed in the overall ending. Well, my neighbor picks up sci-fi at a used book story on o......more

MOULD, FRANKENSCIENCE AND MIRTH In Greg Bear's funny and creepy and REALLY insane story, the rogue scientist invents a virus which... goes viral! Ha ha, that's funny right there, ain't it? Well, what did he expect? That it would stay where he told it and just watch tv? No sir. It develops intelligenc......more

'Blood Music' by Greg Bear is a novel about a pandemic, but this one literally changes EVERYTHING (view spoiler)[ - it changes us, some of the surface of the Earth, and maybe some of solar system into.....wait for it. Sentient quantum particles - at least everything in North America becomes particles. I think. Eve (hide spoiler)]......more