Blood Music (Novel), by Bear, Greg

This is not one of Bear's first books, but it is generally the book that is credited with putting him on the map. Starting with a 1984 Nebula for best novella, Bear expanded this into novel form and published in 1985. Though I cannot vouch for the veracity of this statement, Bear has been credited with publishing the first nanotechnology novel ever. It is essentially a story of forced evolution, which is a theme that runs through some of Bear's other works. But unlike the Darwin novel[…]

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