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Reviewed by: Kim
Rating: 8/10
Genre: Hard Sci-Fi
430 pages/1999
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Darwin’s Radio
by
Greg Bear
There's a new virus attacking the human race and it's like nothing we've ever seen before. It comes from within our own DNA and it only attacks pregnant women causing gross birth defects. But this isn't the first time this has happened.The premise for this story is a very interesting idea. The science behind it was explained fairly thoroughly by the author, but the reader doesn't need to understand the science to appreciate the story. Could something like this really happen? Possibly. It's a scary thought. The language used in writing this novel was also very interesting and the characters were moderately well developed. My biggest complaint about the book is that I didn't believe that some of the characters would really act the way they acted. For example, if you knew that if you got pregnant your baby would be born with serious birth defects, would you get pregnant intentionally just to see what your baby would end up looking like? I sure wouldn't. This book also started off a little slowly. I could tell it was going to be an interesting idea, but it took a while for anything to actually happen. Then, near the end of the book, it switched gears from being all sciencey and cool to being just emotional reactions with very little if any scientific basis. The middle of this book was awesome, but the beginning and end could've been a lot better.
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