Nominated for the 2000 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
Nominated for the 2000 John W. Campbell Award
Greg Bear's fiction ingeniously combines cutting-edge science and unforgettable characters. It has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards and choruses of critical acclaim. Now, with Darwin's Radio, Bear
creates a nonstop thriller swirling with provocative ideas about the next step of human evolution. In a cave high in the Alps, a renegade anthropologist discovers a frozen Neanderthal couple-with a
Homo sapiens baby. Meanwhile, in southern Russia, the U.N. investigation of a mysterious mass grave is cut short. One of the investigators, molecular biologist Kaye Lang, returns home to the U.S. to
learn that her theory on human retroviruses has been verified with the discovery of SHEVA, a virus that has slept in our DNA for millions of years and is now waking up. How are these seemingly
disparate events connected? Kaye Lang and her colleagues must race against a genetic time bomb to find out. Darwin's Radio pulses with intelligent speculation, international adventure, and political
intrigue as it explores timeless human themes. George Guidall's masterful performance heightens the excitement and keeps you enthralled until the final fascinating word.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“[The reader’s]
obvious enthusiasm for the text manifests itself in a riveting performance
encompassing scientific theory and the requisite romance.”
—AudioFile
“Absorbing and
ingenious.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Darwin’s Radio is far superior to other recent thrillers on similar
themes…not only because Bear creates fuller, more realistic characters and
situations, but also because Bear understands the science behind his ideas more
deeply.” —Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine
“[The] idea that
drives [the story] is an intriguing and nicely presented version of punctuated
evolution…Bear is one of a handful of writers in the field who manage both the
complexity of the intellectual material and the solidity and depth of feeling
required for a ‘novel of ideas’ to be a real novel.” —Locus
Greg Bear is an American author of more than forty books spanning the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres. His science fiction works have covered themes of galactic conflict,
artificial universes, consciousness and cultural practice, and accelerated evolution. His fiction has garnered five Nebula Awards, two Hugo Awards, the Monty Award, and the Heinlein Award. He has
also been an illustrator of science fiction works in both hardcover and paperback. He has written articles on film for the Los Angeles Times and book reviews for the San Diego Union.
He is a founding member of the Association of Science Fiction Artists and of the San Diego Comic-Con. and has served as president and vice president of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He
has also served as a consultant for NASA, the US Army, the State Department, and other organizations on such matters as crime and criminal justice, virology and evolution, and bio security.
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