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Darwin's Radio is a 1999 science fiction novel by Greg Bear. It won the Nebula Award in 2000 for Best Novel and the 2000 Endeavour Award. It was also nominated for the Hugo Award, Locus and Campbell Awards the same year. The novel's original tagline was "The next great war will be inside us."
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May 4, 1999 · "Darwin's Radio" is a thought-provoking and scientifically rich novel that delves into the realm of genetics and evolution. Greg Bear, known for his hard science fiction, weaves a complex and engaging narrative that explores the consequences of a stunning scientific discovery: the emergence of a new human subspecies
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Jul 5, 2000 · In his Nebula Award-winning novel, Darwin's Radio, Greg Bear spins a globe-spanning tale that is one part apocalyptic thriller, one part near-future speculation, and one part meditation on the nature of humanity and the forces that drive us to adapt and thrive in a constantly-changing world.
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John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2000)Hugo Best Novel nominee (2000)Nebula Best Novel winner (2001)The Cover Flap Text of the US Edition
Greg Bear's powerfully written, brilliantly inventive novels combine cutting-edge science and unforgettable characters, illuminating dazzling new technologies -- and their dangers. Now, in Darwin's Radio, Bear draws on state-of-the-art biological and anthropological research to give us an ingeniously plotted thriller that questions everything we believe about human origins and destiny -- as civilization confronts the next terrifying step in evolution. A mass grave in Russia that conceals the...
Publisher's Weekly
DARWIN'S RADIO was listed as one of the top novels of the year by Publisher's Weekly!
Amazon.Com
DARWIN'S RADIO was listed as one of the top science fiction novels of 1999 by Amazon.com!
January 2006: DARWIN'S RADIO and DARWIN'S CHILDREN have been released by the Sci Fi Channel and will not be developed by them for a cable miniseries. Executives had changed the tone and emphasis on these books substantially-rendering the New Children into vicious mutant aliens with elf ears, blue blood, and telekinetic powers, something of a mix of...
November 2010: "Epigenetics, science fiction, and scientific fact" by Jim Kohl of Pheromones.com
In his book “Darwin’s Radio” (1999, Del Rey) and his sequel “Darwin’s Children” (2003, Del Rey), science fiction author and novelist Greg Bear successfully predicted that human endogenous retroviruses are involved in human speciation. His new subspecies of humans communicated with pheromones, as do other species from yeasts to non-human primates. This example of science fiction becoming fact contributes to a scientific understanding of epigenetics and human pheromones via a forward-thinking a...
January 2006: Sci Fi Channel
DARWIN'S RADIO and DARWIN'S CHILDRENhave been released by the Sci Fi Channel and will not be developed by them for a cable miniseries. Executives had changed the tone and emphasis on these books substantially—rendering the New Children into vicious mutant aliens with elf ears, blue blood, and telekinetic powers, something of a mix of "Village of the Damned" and "It's Alive." Eventually, creative differences became insurmountable. Producers Michael DeLuca, Howard Braunstein, and Created By's V...
2000: Nebula Award!
DARWIN'S RADIO has won the prestigious Nebula award for best novel by the Science Fiction Writers of America announced April 28th, 2001. Click here for the full list of Nebula Award Winners!
Greg Bear’s Nebula Award–winning novel, Darwin’s Radio, painted a chilling portrait of humankind on the threshold of a radical leap in evolution—one that would alter our species forever.
A 2000 HUGO AWARD NOMINEE Ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans wait like sleeping dragons to wake and infect again–or so molecular biologist Kaye Lang believes. And now it looks as if her controversial theory is in fact chilling reality.
Darwin's Radio is bloody damned good.”—Anne McCaffrey“Virus hunter” Christopher Dicken is a man on a mission, following a trail of rumors, government cover-ups, and dead bodies around the globe...
