Blood Music (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: loose bookplate SIGNED BY GREG BEAR laid in.
What begins as a rogue act of scientific genius ends as nothing less than the transformation of all life on Earth — Blood Music is Greg Bear's electrifying masterwork of biological science fiction. Vergil Ulam, a maverick geneticist on the verge of being fired, illicitly injects himself with his own experimental creation: lymphocytes he has engineered into intelligent, self-evolving microorganisms. What he carries inside him is no longer merely alive — it thinks, it communicates, and it has ambitions of its own, spreading with unstoppable momentum through the human population and rewriting the very definition of consciousness. Bear writes with the precision of a scientist and the vision of a prophet, crafting a narrative that sits at the intersection of hard science and philosophical terror. Blood Music — originally a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning short story before its expansion into this full novel — stands as one of the landmark texts of the cyberpunk and biopunk movements, anticipating contemporary anxieties around genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and the ethics of creation with uncanny prescience. It raises a question that lingers long after the final page: if intelligence is the measure of life, what happens when life itself refuses to stay in its place?
Author: Greg Bear
Format: Hardback
Published: 1985, Arbor House
Genre: Science fiction
Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: loose bookplate SIGNED BY GREG BEAR laid in.
What begins as a rogue act of scientific genius ends as nothing less than the transformation of all life on Earth — Blood Music is Greg Bear's electrifying masterwork of biological science fiction. Vergil Ulam, a maverick geneticist on the verge of being fired, illicitly injects himself with his own experimental creation: lymphocytes he has engineered into intelligent, self-evolving microorganisms. What he carries inside him is no longer merely alive — it thinks, it communicates, and it has ambitions of its own, spreading with unstoppable momentum through the human population and rewriting the very definition of consciousness. Bear writes with the precision of a scientist and the vision of a prophet, crafting a narrative that sits at the intersection of hard science and philosophical terror. Blood Music — originally a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning short story before its expansion into this full novel — stands as one of the landmark texts of the cyberpunk and biopunk movements, anticipating contemporary anxieties around genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and the ethics of creation with uncanny prescience. It raises a question that lingers long after the final page: if intelligence is the measure of life, what happens when life itself refuses to stay in its place?