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Darwin’s Bear

[ad]I don’t often get to recommend books on The Other Blog simply because I don’t get a chance to read nearly as much as I would like. This is true for many reasons, mostly because I spend so much time writing my own fiction and in free time I often only have time for quick reads of old favorites. Insomnia though has brought me two great reads from Greg Bear.

As a master of Science fiction, I am loathe to say I hadn’t read much of his work before and what I had read were only anthology inclusions picked up for some other author. That will change. I picked up Darwin’s Radio at the library simply out of curiosity and left with it like so many other books, having the intention to read them but not finding the time before or after I already owed fines.

Darwin’s Radio is the story of love and fear interwoven with biology, anthropology and modern politics. I have had a lot of time lately to think what family means to me, and this book was picked up at the right time in my life to have a full impact. There are notions that will put both Darwinians, Creationists, pro-choice and pro-lifers on edge in ways you wouldn’t necessarily count on ever happening. True crises help people figure out where there priorities are and in places in the novel I was wondering when the radical black lesbian vegetarians were going to stand side by side with good ol’ boys of the NRA and Klan to fight the guv’ment as one. (He didn’t go quite that far)

Like all good science fiction Darwin’s Radio left me hanging with lots of questions about what if. There was more story to be told. I was sufficiently pleased to go back to the library and see there was a sequel, Darwin’s Children. This answered many of the longing questions I had been left with about the characters I so quickly became attached to. However it too was a powerful novel that leaves you thinking in the end.

If you enjoy intellectual fiction of any type picking up Darwin’s Radio and Darwin’s Children would not be a mistake. If you have already read this and are looking for other recommendations you can’t go wrong with Steven Baxter’s Evolution of Robert J Sawyer’s Neanderthal Parallax Series: Hominids, Humans, Hybrids.

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