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Cargando... Los niños de Darwin (2002)por Greg Bear
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. SF. Fair sequel to Darwin's Radio gets bogged down in just a little too much science jabber. Ha ha! Well since I'm on my spree of pointing out negative uses of the word "anarchy" or "anarchist" or whatever: On page 410, Bear writes: ""This whole camp is on the knife edge of anarchy," the other woman said." That's not a particularly stupid usage given that he's just having a character say it instead of using it as an authorial philosophical statement, but it's worth mentioning. As a sequel, I wanted the novel to be everything that Darwin's Radio was: horrifying and hopeful, amazing speculation and memorable characters. What I did get was a pretty cool adventure with a whole new race of humanity trying to adjust with the old species, and the ideas and development were quite good. This one felt more like a regular sci-fi, and unfortunately, it felt like a long epilogue. Taken on it's own, the novel holds up and is fascinating and very enjoyable, memorable characters and a difficult adjustment. As a follow-up to a very high-class novel, I don't think it quite made it. I still enjoyed it, but I had a problem because my expectations where so high. This is a reader problem, not a novel problem. I suppose I wanted to see the novel go in other directions than it went, or try to one-up the pervading horror that was such a palpable mess in the previous novel. That's neither here nor there. What I do remember was a solid novel that deserves a great rating, even if it doesn't quite match with the one it follows. This is actually more a second volume to a story than it is a sequel. The characters from the first book continue through the years. There is some great medical science fiction with a strong touch of mystical happening as well. In my opinion, understanding the theory is not necessary for enjoying the story, so don't get bogged down with that. Don't miss the section at the end called "Caveats" where Bear explains himself a bit. This book is broken into 3 parts, separated by a few years each. In addition, each part follows at least 3 separate story lines. I felt the first part was fairly interesting,if mainly in the segments which follow the family of Mitch, Kaye, and Stella. I really hate political maneuvering, so that wiped out a great deal of the story for the last 2 parts. Then I felt that Bear was spending a lot of time delving into the interrelationships between viruses and humans, and how this affected the changes the children underwent. He does include a brief tutorial at the end, and a glossary of science terms, as if that will help the reader feel his speculations have some validity. Not knowing what DNA, RNA, or genetic transfer is about was not my problem. I was dissatisfied with his use of so many created theories. At one point one of his characters, Marge Cross, says "Let's not confuse our ERV with someone else's ERV," rattling off a lot of the scientific terms which can be used so glibly but need to be clearly understood in order to make sense. Thumbs down, I'm giving this away. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: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. Now Bear continues his provocative tale of the human race confronted by an uncertain future, where “survival of the fittest” takes on astonishing and controversial new dimensions. Eleven years have passed since SHEVA, an ancient retrovirus, was discovered in human DNA—a retrovirus that caused mutations in the human genome and heralded the arrival of a new wave of genetically enhanced humans. Now these changed children have reached adolescence . . . and face a world that is outraged about their very existence. For these special youths, possessed of remarkable, advanced traits that mark a major turning point in human development, are also ticking time bombs harboring hosts of viruses that could exterminate the “old” human race. Fear and hatred of the virus children have made them a persecuted underclass, quarantined by the government in special “schools,” targeted by federally sanctioned bounty hunters, and demonized by hysterical segments of the population. But pockets of resistance have sprung up among those opposed to treating the children like dangerous diseases—and who fear the worst if the government’s draconian measures are carried to their extreme. Scientists Kaye Lang and Mitch Rafelson are part of this small but determined minority. Once at the forefront of the discovery and study of the SHEVA outbreak, they now live as virtual exiles in the Virginia suburbs with their daughter, Stella—a bright, inquisitive virus child who is quickly maturing, straining to break free of the protective world her parents have built around her, and eager to seek out others of her kind. But for all their precautions, Kaye, Mitch, and Stella have not slipped below the government’s radar. The agencies fanatically devoted to segregating and controlling the new-breed children monitor their every move—watching and waiting for the opportunity to strike the next blow in their escalating war to preserve “humankind” at any cost. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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