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What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 655b0dc43c2015fc • Your IP : 188.246.226.140 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. "Blood Music" by Greg Bear. A friend of mine gave me a copy of the novel length expansion of "Blood Music" shortly after it was published. I did not really get it; the plot seemed to me to start from a very good idea and degenerate into silliness. The original short story, however, is excellent. Brian Aldiss once characterised good sf as not so much "What if. " as "My God! What if. " and "Blood Music" is firmly in that category. The story begins with a classic first sentence, "There is a principle in nature I don't think anyone has pointed out before". This leads to a couple of paragraphs of exposition of the prinicple that micro-organisms die all the time and it doesn't really matter, followed by the couplet: "That, at least, is the principle. I believe Vergil Ulam was the first to violate it." Our narrator, Edward Milligan, unexpectedly meets up with his old friend Vergil Ulam, who has succeeded in developing intelligence in bacteria by unlocking the information processing potential of RNA molecules. He transfers the intelligent RNA into his own white blood cells, and now finds his body being changed from within as the cells take over. Terrified by the potential dangers of Vergil's research, Edward kills his friend. But it is too late. Vergil has managed to infect Edward with his geneticially modified microbiota, and Edward in turn infects his wife Gail. The story ends as the couple find their bodies completely under the control of the newly evolved intelligences, now expanding to take over the rest of the human world, and come to terms with a new mode of existence. Basically Bear has taken two very ancient sf themes, the story of man's creation gone wrong (which dates back to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ) and the evolutionary transcendence theme which is surprisingly common among hard sf writers, most notably in Arthur C Clarke's Childhood's End ; and he has united them with his own biological speculations (slightly foreshadowed, in typically gloomy style, by Brian Aldiss' short story "Gene Hive" aka "Journey to the Interior" ) to create a cracking piece of narrative. And the quality of the narrative is one reason I can't easily place "Blood Music" in the nanotechnology or cyberpunk traditions which it is said to have kicked off. Other novels I have read dealing with the theme of nanotechnology include Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age , Ian McDonald's Necroville , Kathleen Anne Goonan's Crescent City Rhapsody . Not one of these books has a really satisfying ending, and since I know that McDonald and Stephenson at least can write real endings in their other books, it would seem that the gosh-wow factor of describing nanotechnology has a tendency to distract the author from conventional narrative guidelines - my fading memory of the novel version of Blood Music bears this out. Orson Scott Card, in his introduction to the story in Future on Ice , argues that Bear cannot be a cyberpunk writer because he is an "all-around nice guy", the implication being that real "cyberpunk" authors are not. Card's antipathy to cyberpunk is well known, so this is not a hugely convincing argument. However, given that no less than Bruce Sterling (in his fanzine "Cheap Truth", issue 6 for the novelette and issue 12 for the novel) hailed "Blood Music" as one of the founding texts of cyberpunk, there is a case to answer. It seems to me though that true cyberpunk, when it deals with biological engineering, is exhilarated by the possibilities of a new technology under human control. The moral of "Blood Music" is ambiguous; in so far as Vergil Ulam's invention of molecular nanotechnology leads to new possibilities of human existence, this can only come about through an awful compromise with what used to be the components of our own bodies. "Blood Music" gets it just right in terms of characterisation, pace and an ending which raises even further questions about the universe. Strongly recommended. The next review in this series will be "Catch that Zeppelin!" , a short story from the 1970s by Fritz Leiber. "Blood Music" won the 1984 Hugo Award for Best Novelette. Other winners of 1984 Hugos: Startide Rising (novel) by David Brin; "Cascade Point" (novella) by John Varley; "Speech Sounds" (short story) by Octavia Butler. "Blood Music" won the 1983 Nebula Award for Best Novelette. Other winners of 1984 Nebulas: Startide Rising (novel) by David Brin; "Hardfought" (novella) by Greg Bear; "The Peacemaker" (short story) by Gardner Dozois. Other awards. nominated in 1984 Locus Poll Award for Novelette (beaten by The Monkey Treatment by George R. R. Martin) The novel-length expansion won the 1986 Prix Apollo, but was beaten by Bob Shaw's The Ragged Astronauts for the 1986 BSFA Award, by David Brin's The Postman for the 1986 John W. Campbell Memorial Award and the 1986 Locus Poll Award, and by Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game for the 1986 Hugo and the 1985 Nebula. Publication details. Analog , June 1983 The 1984 Annual World's Best SF , ed. Donald A. Wollheim & Arthur W. Saha, 1984 The Year's Best Science Fiction, First Annual Collection , ed. Gardner R. Dozois, 1984 The Nebula Awards #19 , ed. Marta Randall, 1984 Tangents , Greg Bear, 1989 The New Hugo Winners , ed. Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg, 1989 Nanodreams , ed. Elton Elliott, 1995 Discoveries: The First Focus Science Fiction Anthology , ed. Anon., 1995 Visions of Wonder , ed. David G. Hartwell & Milton T. Wolf, 1996 Cyber-Killers , ed. Ric Alexander, 1997 Future on Ice , ed. Orson Scott Card, 1998 Nanotech , ed. Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, 1998 The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy , ed. Garyn G. Roberts, 2001 The Collected Stories of Greg Bear , 2002 24 stories by Bear, also includes "Tangents". See also the novel-length expansion, Blood Music , Greg Bear. Poul Anderson, "Goat Song" Isaac Asimov, "The Bicentennial Man" Isaac Asimov, "The Gods Themselves" Greg Bear, "Blood Music" Greg Bear, Darwin's Radio Terry Bisson, "Bears Discover Fire" Terry Bisson, "macs" Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign Octavia Butler, "Bloodchild" The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction Mark Campbell, Pocket Essentials: Doctor Who Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game Ted Chiang, Hell Is the Absence of God Arthur C. Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise Neil Gaiman, American Gods Neil Gaiman, Coraline Joe Haldeman, Forever Peace Joe Haldeman, The Forever War Frank Herbert, Dune Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon Nancy Kress, "Beggars in Spain" Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed Fritz Leiber, "Catch That Zeppelin" Fritz Leiber, "Gonna Roll The Bones" Kelly Link, "The Faery Handbag" Barry B. Longyear, Enemy Mine Vonda N. McIntyre, Dreamsnake George Mann (ed.), The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Frederik Pohl, Gateway J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Charles Sheffield, Georgia On My Mind Clifford D. Simak, Grotto of the Dancing Deer Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky Connie Willis, Doomsday Book Connie Willis, "Even the Queen" Connie Willis, "Fire Watch" David Wingrove (ed), The Science Fiction Source Book. brief reviews of the joint winners of the Hugo and Nebula awards, 1st page , 2nd page and 3rd page. Blood Music. In the tradition of the greatest cyberpunk novels, Blood Music explores the imminent destruction of mankind and the fear of mass destruction by technological advancements. Blood Music follows present-day events in which the fears concerning the nuclear annihilation of the world subsided after the Cold War and the fear of chemical warfare spilled over into the empty void of nuclear fear. An amazing breakthrough in genetic engineering made by Vergil Ulam is considered too dangerous for further research, but rather than destroy his work, he injects himself with his creation and walks out of his lab, unaware of just quite how his actions will change the world. Author Greg Bear's treatment of the traditional tale of scientific hubris is both suspenseful and a compelling portrait of a new intelligence emerging amongst us, irrevocably changing our world.
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