Darwin's Radio

Type

Book

Authors

Bear, Greg

ISBN 10

034542333X

ISBN 13

9780345423337

Tags

Medical, Adventure, Women molecular biologists, DNA viruses, Genetic engineering, Retroviruses, Human evolution, Science fiction, Virus diseases--Immunological aspects, Women biologists

Abstract

"In an ice cave in the Swiss Alps, Mitch Rafelson, a renegade paleontologist, discovers a frozen Neanderthal family, including an oddly evolved infant. Meantime, in Soviet Georgia, Kaye Lang, a microbiologist, is investigating a massacre site, where pregnant women were exterminated. These events relate--by way of elliptical scientific reasoning--to a retrovirus being hunted by U.S. government scientist Christopher Dicken. Called SHEVA, it causes genetic mutations in embryos and may also be an agent of evolution, ushering into being a new race of humans. Is it a sexually transmitted disease? Or, more sinister, is it a God-sent means of delivering up a new Adam for the millennium?"--Page W.

Description

A retrovirus is discovered which provokes miscarriages in women, followed by a second pregnancy without sexual intercourse. As scientists race to unlock its mysteries, fears grow it may herald the end of the human race as we know it.

Biblio Notes

Genre/Form: Science fiction
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Greg Bear
ISBN: 034542333X 9780345423337 0345435249 9780345435248 0345459814 9780345459817
OCLC Number: 40940104
Notes: Novel.
"A Del Rey book"--Title page verso.
Awards: Nebula Award winner, novel 2000.
Description: 430 pages ; 25 cm
Series Title: Darwin's Radio, 1.
Responsibility: Greg Bear.

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